Juan Guaidó is most courageous political figure in years

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Juan Guaidó is most courageous political figure in years | Miami Herald
By Andres Oppenheimer

Venezuela’s National Assembly President Juan Guaidó, who is recognized by the United States and more than 50 countries as his country’s interim president, may be a lousy public speaker and an accidental leader. But he’s the most courageous and inspiring political figure to have emerged in Latin America in years.

Guaidó, 35, risked being detained, tortured and perhaps even killed when he returned to Venezuela on Monday.

He had left secretly for Colombia more than a week ago, defying a ruling by the Venezuelan regime that prohibited him from leaving the country, to head an international humanitarian aid delivery effort. But the Feb. 23 aid delivery effort was violently blocked by Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship at the Colombia-Venezuela border.

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