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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called the "media show" on Monday the momentary arrest of the head of parliament, Juan Guaidó, attributing it to a conspiracy between corrupt opponents and agents of intelligence to attack the government.
Maduro said the incident occurred on Sunday, when Guaidó was preparing to direct a demonstration outside Caracas, relied on the "corrupt and treacherous co-operation of a group of officials" of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin).
"Ah, what a coincidence, a camera perfectly focused (…), professional, which takes the moment when the deputy (…) was held in a strange event", the president observed during the presentation of his annual working report before the Constituent.
Maduro said that after learning about what happened, he ordered the agents – four, as previously reported by the government – "They were fired for lending to a media show."
"In this way I will act against any official who betrays the public oath (…) Iron Man to corruption! I'm not going to shake with anyone (…). From every show we will be stronger ", he warned.
Guaidó, president of the majority-opposition parliament, was released an hour after his truck was intercepted by heavily armed men and blamed the government for the fact. Maduro has accused the opposition of exhibiting another "show" Last Saturday, damaging, according to him, the electricity supply equipment and leaving the university hospital of Caracas without light for several hours.
Blackouts are frequent in Venezuela and, according to experts, are due to the lack of investments in infrastructure, corruption and incompetence.
Health union trade unionists have reported that two people died because of the cut and one hundred were evicted. "It was a terrorist attack planned as a show by terrorists who today are in command of Venezuelan opposition and we will face it severely and we will defeat them: terrorists!", popped the socialist ruler.
Maduro then alluded to Guaidó, who took office on January 5 as parliamentary leader and calls for the support of citizens and the armed forces to assume a "transitional government" in Venezuela.
Guaidó claims that the Constitution authorizes him to fill the power vacuum that, according to him, exists in the country because the new mandate of Maduro started on January 10th is considered illegitimate by the Legislature and by a large part of the international community.
AFP
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