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The Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó was attacked in the state of Cojedes.
The United States government and the Organization of American States (OAS) condemned the attacks on Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, after a group of people rebuked him this Saturday during a visit to the state of Cojedes, in western Venezuela. .
In a message on his Twitter account, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinkensaid that his country is “deeply concerned” by the fact that Guaidó “has been attacked for the second time” in two weeks in Venezuela.
“We condemn this climbing of acts of violence, harassment and intimidation against interim president Juan Guaidó and against all those who defend democracy,” said Blinken.
For his part, the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, wrote on the same social network that the organization he heads condemned the attack on Guaidó. “Their physical integrity must be respected. We repudiate any form of violence and political persecution carried out by the dictatorship,” he wrote.
Guaidó’s press team assured on Saturday that the assault It was committed by followers of Chavismo, several of them armed, while some videos circulating on social networks show how several citizens insult, push and throw objects at the politician, who was inside an establishment, the EFE agency reported.
Last Saturday, Guaidó denounced an alleged attack of the president’s government Nicholas Maduro in some activities that he had planned with sympathizers in the state of Zulia, bordering Colombia.
Guaidó could not lead a walk, because a group of people who identified themselves as “revolutionaries” They attacked opposition sympathizers who were organizing a citizen assembly, which generated a confrontation in which there were shoves and both sides threw chairs and other objects.
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