Venezuela Seeks Arrest of Juan Guaidó, Former Opposition Leader

The Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday that they’d been looking for the arrest of Juan Guaidó, the earlier opposition chief who’s in exile in america.

Authorized skilled Frequent Tarek William Saab said Venezuela’s Public Ministry had requested a warrant for Mr. Guaidó’s arrest. He said Mr. Guaidó had used the sources of the state-owned oil agency, Petróleos de Venezuela, for his private revenue, claiming that his actions had value the Venezuelan authorities $19 billion.

Mr. Guaidó denied the accusations on social media, saying that “that’s how the dictatorship’s machine for promoting lies works.”

Mr. Guaidó turned the face of the resistance to Venezuela’s authoritarian authorities all through large-scale protests in 2019, when he took the helm of the legislature, declared President Nicolás Maduro an illegitimate ruler and appointed himself the country’s interim leader, a daring switch backed by america and dozens of various nations.

Nonetheless as he didn’t make progress in the direction of dislodging Mr. Maduro, his help waned at residence and overseas. Ultimate yr, his colleagues inside the opposition dissolved his interim government.

The Public Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that prosecutors had been appointed to state of affairs the warrant for Mr. Guaidó’s arrest, and that the federal authorities would ask Interpol to state of affairs a “pink uncover” to governments worldwide asking that he be detained.