Juan Guaidó said he was met with “threats of deportation” from the Colombian government and felt “pressure” from a U.S. official to get on a plane out of Colombia
to Miami last week, before he attempted to crash an international conference to which he was not invited, Juan Guaidó traveled quietly across Venezuela by road. At one point, the embattled opposition politician says,Guaidó, fleeing what he says were threats of arrests by the Venezuelan government, crossed the border to Colombia and made his way to Bogotá. The international summit here, he hoped, would provide a window of opportunity in which sympathetic officials of the U.S.
But mass protests, appeals to foreign governments and an abortive uprising failed to dislodge Maduro, and in December, fellow opposition leaders voted to dissolve Guaidó's so-called interim government.Government threats against his safety escalated, he told The Post, and the 39-year-old father of two began exploring options to leave Venezuela.
Jonathan Reynaga, a Guaidó adviser who met him in Bogotá and traveled with him to Miami, said he saw a conversation in which González “at no stage showed empathy for his security or his family’s.” Guaidó's public attempt to crash an international conference frustrated Colombian officials, according to the U.S. official and others who were closely involved.While Venezuelan opposition leaders were not invited to the conference itself, the Petro government convened a meeting a few days earlier with key members of their negotiating team and invited Guaidó's Popular Will party to send a representative.
Petro tweeted that the Colombian government would have “gladly offered” Guaidó asylum if he had asked for it. “There was no need to enter the country illegally,” he said. “He was offered a transit permit, he was not deported back to his country and with the permission of the U.S. he flew to that country.”clear they decided they could have more impact in Miami than in Caracas.”“Guaidó had an opportunity for his representative to meet with Petro,” Ramsey said.
daughters, ages 6 and 1. She decided to leave the country, but feared she could be barred from doing so. Her Venezuelan passport has expired and the children lacked proper Venezuelan travel documents.6-year-old daughter that her father had found work outside of the country and they were going to go meet him. “We’re going to live the adventure of Dora,” Rosales told her daughter, a fan of Dora the Explorer. She took the 6-year-old to her school to say a brief goodbye to her friends.
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