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Venezuelan political strategist Juan José Rendón resigned this Monday from his position in the team of the opposition Juan Guaidó tThey have admitted that they signed an agreement with military contractor Silvercorp and that they paid $ 50,000 for an attack that ended with the arrest of several government officials.
(Also read: Venezuela captures 11 other people for alleged maritime incursion).
Similarly, deputy Sergio Vergara resigned his position, whose signature also appears in the contract with Silvercorp and that he also worked in the “legitimate government” of Guaidó, as he calls himself, according to a brief statement from the opposition leader’s National Communication Center (CNC).
President (e) Guaidó accepted the resignation of J.J. Rendon and Sergio Vergara to their positions in the interim Government https://t.co/KOT2SDtGHJ
– National Communication Center (@Presidencia_VE) May 11, 2020
J.J. Rendón, as the political strategist is known, acknowledged the firm in an interview with CNN in Spanish, although he assured that it was “a preliminary agreement that did not become effective” because, finally, they did not give the green light and denied that Guaidó signed the document.
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As a consequence of the attack, carried out a week ago on two maritime raids and in which Silvercorp participated, at least eight people died and 45 more were detained, including American citizens Luke Denman and Airan Berry, who work for the military contractor.
Former advisors support Guaidó
According to the statement released this Monday, Rendón and Vergara “ratified their support for the democratic cause.” They also ratified their recognition of Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela, as fifty countries have done.
Likewise, “they called on all national and international sectors to strengthen support for the interim president and the need to form a National Emergency Government as the only real way to save Venezuela from an unprecedented catastrophe,” added the information.
In his resignation letter, published on social networks, Vergara assures that the only thing he did was assume “the exploration of all possible scenarios” to achieve “the long-awaited change” of the Government in Venezuela.
Focused on the achievement of the Freedom of Venezuela as the only north of our fight I have presented my resignation this morning to the President @jguaido to the position of Presidential Commissioner pic.twitter.com/BOAZQXlkET
– SERGIO VERGARA G. (@SergioVergaraG) May 11, 2020
For this reason, he recalled the phrase “all options are on the table”, spoken by Guaidó and to which J.J. Rendón, who considers that “it was not a mere phrase to impact headlines”, but implied “the precise assessment of the necessary conditions to achieve the change that allowed us to explore scenarios that would result in the expected change. ”
After the failed operation, called Gideon, the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office announced that it will request the extradition of the now former advisers, as well as the representative of the company, Jordan Goudreau, all of them residing in the United States. USA
EFE
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