‘Operation freedom’: Venezuela’s self-proclaimed leader Juan Guaido starts domestic tour to stir support and drive out President Nicolas Maduro
- After almost two months of campaigning against the president, Guaido vows that he will take power ‘soon’
Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim leader Juan Guaido began a tour of his country Saturday aimed at sparking a citizen’s movement to pry President Nicolas Maduro from power.
As Guaido, 35, kicked off his “operation freedom” in the northern city of Valencia, the pro-Maduro military staged the latest in a series of exercises.
Guaido, the head of the opposition-ruled National Assembly whose claim to be caretaker president is recognised by the US, Canada and much of Latin America and Europe, vowed he would “very soon” take up office in Miraflores, the presidential palace.
He has been pushing for nearly two months against Maduro after declaring himself acting president during street rallies by tens of thousands, following Maduro’s swearing in for a second term despite elections widely dismissed as a sham.
