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Guatemala president-elect says he was denied entry to Venezuela
« on: October 12, 2019, 07:03:12 pm »
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Guatemala president-elect says he was denied entry to Venezuela

CARACAS (Reuters) - Guatemala’s president-elect said he was denied entry to Venezuela on Saturday, where he was scheduled to meet with opposition leader Juan Guaido.

Alejandro Giammattei, a conservative who won the Central American country’s presidency in August, landed at Simon Bolivar international airport near the capital Caracas, but “regime officials are impeding his entry,” Guaido’s office said.

Guaido, who leads Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, was recognized as the country’s rightful leader by dozens of other nations in January after invoking the constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing President Nicolas Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-guatemala/venezuela-denies-entry-to-guatemalan-president-elect-scuppering-meeting-with-opposition-leader-idUSKBN1WR0EE