The best leader of the opposition of Venezuela Juan Pablo Guanipa was arrested on Friday for the alleged leadership of the “terrorist group”, which tried to sabotage the elections on May 25. The arrest of Guanipa comes in the middle of the opposition requires a mass boycott of the weekend.
The opposition was again and again accused of plotting with countries such as the United States to commit terrorism, overthrow President Nicolas Madur and attacked Venezuel’s energy network, Reuters reported. Maduro often claims to be the aim of American and Colombian coups.
The opposition and Washington have always denied the accusations.
Who is John Pabula Guanpia?
Juan Pablo Guanipa is a 60 -year -old former deputy, lawyer, long -time politician and close ally of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. According to Machado reports, he called on voters to set out on May 25.
A trained lawyer, Guanipa, was appointed vice -president in the now defunct parallel government established by the former opposition leader Juan Guaid after 2018 of the presidential election that returned Maduro for the second term.
Guanipa, like Machado, was hiding after the presidential vote of July 2024, which the opposition and most of the international community believe that the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia rightly won.
Last July, the left -wing President Nicolas Maduro claimed that he won the third term without bringing detailed results to support his claim. He was widely charged with theft of the last elections.
Here’s all you need to know about the arrest of Juan Pablo Guanips
1. Juan Pablo Guanipa, a well -known Venezuelan opposition politician, was arrested on Friday for charging the conspiracy to sabotage the upcoming parliamentary and regional elections that the opposition committed to boycott, AFP reported.
2. Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello joined Guainin’s arrest, with what the government called foreign chart of foreign mercenaries to sabotal Sunday voting for members of parliament and 24 state governors. Cabello said Guanipa also faces accusations of washing money and incitement of hatred.
“He is one of the leaders of this terrorist network,” Cabello said on state television, adding that the plan of voting disruption was described in detail on four phones and a notebook found in Guanipa.
3. The Minister stated that 70 people were detained in the alleged conspiracy, including foreigners to carry out attacks during Sunday regional and legislative elections. According to AFP, he added that these 70 people, including citizens of Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, Serbia and “several” Pakistani nationals.
4. The Minister also claimed that the suspects allegedly planned to grow bombs in hospitals, metro stations, police stations and power plants. He said the authorities had confiscated explosives, weapons, launching and cash.
5. Account report x Guanips, shortly after his arrest, read: “If you read it, it’s because I was kidnapped by Nicolas Madura’s forces.”
Guanipa wrote about X: “To date, I am part of the Venezuelans list kidnapped by dictatorship … This is the kidnapping motivated by the only reason: the fear of the regime from the Venezuelan people. The dictatorship fear of the Spirit 28 and 29.”
He added, “I’m not sure what will happen to me in the coming hours, days and weeks.
6. Edmundo González Also published on X and said that “the regime reactivated the operation of political repression” just before “Fradic elections without warranty of any kind”. In the report of the International Community, he said, “This is not a choice. It is an authoritarian facility that protects the power they usurp.”
7. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement expressing “concerns after the unauthorized and arbitrary arrests of the opposition leader Juan Pabl Guanipa and more than 70 individuals” in what he described the “new wave of repression of Maduro”.
8. On Monday, the government suspended flights from Colombia after the arrest of dozens of people said to have been mercenaries who slipped into Venezuela from their neighbor.
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