Venezuela: Juan Guaidó affirms that Maduro's government will end in 2019

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"20 years were enough," said opposition leader Juan Guaidó, quoted in a statement from the National Assembly, without directly mentioning Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido said Saturday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro will come to an end in 2019, after ensuring that the opposition will remain on the streets, days after the last talks in Norway that ended without agreements.

Guaidó insisted that he keeps all the options on the table in response to the economic and humanitarian crisis that affects the South American country and that has pressured the migration of millions of Venezuelans and affected neighboring countries. "This did not start in 2019, but it will end in 2019. Let the regime decide if they go out for good or if they go out for bad (...) 20 years were enough," said Guaidó, quoted in a statement from the National Assembly, without mentioning Maduro directly. "The time has come to cast the rest because there are no magic solutions," the president of the Congress also added, in a massive ceremony with his followers in the western state of Barinas, the birthplace of the late President Hugo Chávez. The Ministry of Communication did not immediately respond to a request for comments. Norway, mediator between the envoys of the Government and the opposition of Venezuela, said in the week that there was "disposition" to look for a solution to the current political crisis, after a second round of conversations. Guaidó, in January invoked articles of the Constitution to proclaim himself president in charge for considering the Venezuelan president illegitimate. But, Maduro calls Guaidó a "puppet" that with the support of the United States seeks to remove him from power. The political crisis flared up on April 30, when Guaidó, along with some military, opposition and demonstrators, called on the armed forces to ignore Maduro, considered by his critics illegitimate in his position for having been re-elected in questioned elections.