This is how Guaidó is seen from Costa Rica: «We were witnesses to the disappointment of the people»
For a Costa Rican journalist, Guaidó proceeded to betray his promise not to attend ‘false’ dialogues and lost five months in Oslo and Barbados
The continuous failures of Juan Guaidó at the head of a seditious plan — which seeks to create a parallel State in Venezuela — have left him alone, without credibility and worn out in the ranks of the extreme right that considers that political change comes through violence, with “internal pressure and foreign military intervention”.
This is what the Costa Rican journalist Jovel Álvarez believes. Alvarez recently wrote an opinion article for the American media PanAm Post, entitled: “Guaidó calls for a rebellion while people ignore him”, in which he analyzes — according to his ideas and political vision — the decline in the credibility of this figure of extremism and how his seditious aims have failed for more than a year and a half.
“The deputy from Vargas (…) has faced serious difficulties in his plan to reactivate internal pressure in the streets of the country”, begins the article by Álvarez, who recalled that the last call, that Guaidó made to take the streets was on March 10 and ended in failure.
“To date, Guaidó has not been able to call a protest again. Despite the fact that the motives exist and are worthy of the biggest revolts, people seem not to be willing to sacrifice themselves at the request of a politician”, emphasizes the journalist.
Álvarez cites a recent interview that Guaidó gave to opposition journalist Gladys Rodríguez, in which he confessed that although there is “a lot of external pressure but little internal pressure” the political situation “could resemble Cuba”.
The long-awaited opposition rebellion does not start
Álvarez also cites another interview of opposition journalists Nitu Pérez Osuna and Alejandro Marcano Santelli, with Alberto Federico Ravell, who is in charge of carrying Guaidó’s propaganda marketing, and who also confessed that “without rebellion there is no intervention”.
According to Álvarez, these words from Ravell suggest that “to activate maximum pressure from the allies, another insurrection is required. I emphasize another ”.
In this sense, Álvarez recalls the different calls that Guaidó made to take the streets that ended in failures: Cúcuta (February 23, 2019); call for military insurrection and coup in Altamira (April 30); other concentrations and marches and the most recent failed ‘Gideon’ operation, with US mercenaries trained in Colombia and carried out during the quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“For Juan Guaidó, it is relatively easy to ask people to take to the streets. He already had that support (…) He failed us”, says Álvarez.
He adds in his article that “once both moves had failed”, Guaidó “proceeded to betray his promise not to go to false dialogues and lost five months in Oslo and Barbados, despite the fact that all of us, who were betting on his victory, told him that with it he was just shooting himself in the feet”.
Guaidó: An ample display of production and propaganda
Álvarez recalls that “in November” of 2019 he traveled to Venezuela “to cover a call to the streets that the interim had made a month in advance and for which he made a series of propaganda spots that required a significant deployment of production”.
“The expectation on the part of those of us who were going to be at the march that November 16 was maximum. Many even thought that the goal was to get to Miraflores. The result: nothing. The photo was taken with the people on the street and ended up at the Bolivian embassy singing the national anthem. We witnessed the disappointment of the people”.
“Even I thought: Is this why we came to Venezuela? For nothing? For this reason, I cannot blame those who resist the call for rebellion made by Juan Guaidó. The insurrection today cannot be born from a convocation made by an ancient and discredited political class. What guarantees can Guaidó offer to the citizens that by heeding his call he will not betray them again? “, adds the PanAm Post reporter, who openly confesses to being prone to sedition in Venezuela.
In his article, Álvarez mentions the statements of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on July 10 to Telemundo, where, in an interview with José Díaz-Balart, he said that Guaidó “seems to be losing some power”, which is why Washington is looking for “someone who has the support of the people”.
“He seems to be losing some power. We want someone who has the support of the people. I support whoever has the support of the people”, said Trump; and days later, he sent former ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson to open a dialogue with President Nicolás Maduro and to free several imprisoned Americans, as a goodwill gesture to ease tensions with the United States. These include former CITGO officials who participated in a corruption network run by Leopoldo López and two mercenaries from the failed ‘Gideon’ operation.
Álvarez closes his “analysis” with the following message: “To those who insist on calling the person in charge to separate himself from the political class that ‘kidnaps’ him, I ask you to desist. Juan is very comfortable under Leopoldo’s wing”.
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