Venezuelan deputy Juan Guaido landed today at the Simon Bolivar International Airport (Maiquetia) at 4:30 pm on a regular commercial flight from TAP Airlines, originating in Lisbon finishing his “New Round of US Sanctions Tour 2020”. (corrected on Feb. 13)
US sanctioned CONVIASA workers protesting the arrival of Guaido… https://t.co/bZiczlhQiu
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
Simon Bolivar International Airport is also the headquarters of recently US Sanctioned Conviasa Airlines and is located in Maiquetia, an area belonging to La Guaira state, the state that Guaido “represents” as deputy in the National Assembly.
Infuriated CONVIASA worker confronted Guaido upon arrival…more conviasa protesters waiting for him than his own supporters… https://t.co/rV34wpwMjR
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
Disregarding the media gaggle that always follows Guaido in Venezuela (aka Free Press) and a few deputies waiting for Guaido, all the videos posted on social media show a lack of welcoming, cheering crowds (as wrongly reported in an AFP tweet) and on the contrary, show crowds rejecting and booing him, most of them seeming to be from Conviasa workers infuriated by US sanctions announced last week by Trump’s regime.
Another CONVIASA worker "welcoming" Guaido…recent sanctions requested by him to his master in Washington have jeopardize this airline operation… https://t.co/pIQnd3l2ak
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
Venezuelan authorities and Chavista analysts have stated in recent days that it would be a mistake to capture Guaido and confront him with the long list of crimes he has committed, after several grassroot demonstrations demanded the government take that decision.
Not too many people welcoming Guaido upon his arrival after his "New Sanctions Tour 2020"… https://t.co/VGshXQa7IZ
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
“One can not take action against a political corpse like Guaido, that is what he and the US are looking for in order to victimize him and give him traction and an aura of leadership now lacking even among most his radical followers,” said Miguel Angel Perez Pirela in a radio interview early today in Union Radio.
Venezuelan presidents enter the country through an special section in Maiquetia airport called "Rampa 5". We don't understand how Guaido enters Venezuela as a regular tourist (not even using the diplomatic booth in his back)??? Can someone explain?😉😂 Isn't he the president? https://t.co/NRbd4vxzdD
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
Guaidó lived and began his political career in La Guaira (where Maiquetia airport is located). Today he could not mobilize enough people to epic his return. Chavismo, always so underrated, dissolved in minutes the entire media effect of his tour and wins the first round of 2020.
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
A handful of Guaido-aligned deputies went to the airport to welcome him but initiated a media show involving some journalists, some National Guard and the anti-Guaido crowds protesting his lack of patriotism in begging abroad for more radical US sanctions.
According to a study conducted by @ceprdc
, coercive measures requested by Guaido and implemented by the US government are responsible for the death of at least 40 thousand Venezuelans.That's why they shout "murderer" at Juan Guaidó. https://t.co/6rCdiOTXJx
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
The extreme-right Guaido bench called for a street assembly or demonstration in the “Plaza Bolivar” of Chacao with all the deputies that still support Guaido, but at the time we finished this edition we found little evidence of their success.
Not to many people welcoming Guaido…not even at his condo in the east of Caracas… https://t.co/kvvOmNp0Ue
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 11, 2020
Plaza Bolivar de Chacao in eastern Caracas, awaiting the arrival of Guaido pic.twitter.com/jPHRZjISOE
— Sarah Kinosian (@skinosian) February 11, 2020
The only documentary evidence we could find is a video showing Guido’s arrival to his condo in the east of Caracas and another from the Bolivar square in Chacao more than half empty around 7:15 pm (Caracas time).
EXCLUSIVE: Video footage showing @jguaido landing in Venezuela on the #MarineOne lended by his "peer" @realDonaldTrump 😉😉🤣 https://t.co/ZjCP3VdFUA
— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) February 12, 2020
The lack of relevance of Guaido today in Venezuela might be synthesized by a humorist video spread via twitter by a Chavista account, @1ChavistaMaduro, making a video parody of the alleged landing in Venezuela of Guaido using the US presidential helicopter known as #MarineOne.
Featured image: Meme of Guaido supposedly entering Venezuela as Naruto to avoid being caught by Conviasa workers
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