Nicolas Maduro’s congressman son known as on Sunday for Venezuelans to take to the streets following his father’s ouster by US forces and switch to a New York jail.
“You will note us within the streets, you will note us by individuals’s sides, you will note us fly the flag of dignity,” Nicolas Maduro Guerra, 35, stated in a defiant audio message shared on social media.
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His aides confirmed the authenticity of the recording to AFP.
“They need us to seem weak, however we won’t present weak point,” stated Maduro Guerra, who’s certainly one of six individuals, alongside together with his father and stepmother Cilia Flores, accused of “narcoterrorism” by US authorities.
The seamless execution of the operation to seize Venezuela’s chief from his hiding place within the capital Caracas and fly him overseas has led to hypothesis that the socialist firebrand was betrayed by somebody inside his inside circle.
Echoing these rumours, his son stated, “Historical past will inform who the traitors had been, historical past will reveal it. We’ll see.”
Maduro Guerra is the one organic son of the ousted president, who later adopted the three kids of his second spouse, Flores.
He expressed confidence that “chavismo” — the anti-imperialist, socialist motion based by Venezuela’s charismatic late chief Hugo Chavez — would survive.
Some Maduro supporters had been seen Sunday demonstrating within the streets of Caracas, waving flags and holding up posters exhibiting the ousted chief.
Inside hours of being seized by US commandos in Saturday’s pre-dawn assault, Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, had been sitting in a New York jail.
Maduro is scheduled to seem earlier than a federal decide in New York at midday on Monday to be formally notified in regards to the fees in opposition to him.
His deputy, Delcy Rodriguez, has been appointed performing president of Venezuela.
AFP
