News-The United States expels from its territory the dissident of the Venezuelan opposition, Javier Bertucci

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The United States government has expelled from its territory Javier Bertucci, the dissident Venezuelan deputy of the opposition led by Juan Guaidó. The deportation occurred on Tuesday when he arrived in Miami on a commercial flight and was detained for several hours at the airport, preventing him from entering and invalidating his passport. In conversation with ABC, the also former presidential candidate has rejected the  

 

measure and has said that it is about pressure from the radical opposition of Guaidó, however, the US authorities alleged that the decision is due to his links with the regime of Nicolás Maduro and "They said that I have a house and multimillion dollar accounts and I have none of that in the United States."

 

      

 

“There is no valid reason to prevent me from entering the United States, nor is there a reason to invalidate my visa that I have had for more than 21 years. I am convinced that this is the position of people who support a failed strategy (Juan Guaidó), who insist on making the United States see that there is only one opposition (...) The problem with the United States is that it believes that in Venezuela there is a single opposition, and they have to understand that there are other voices, "he commented by telephone.

 

Bertucci, 51, is a politician and evangelical pastor who measured himself against Nicolás Maduro in the 2018 presidential elections.He assured that since May 2019 he had not entered the United States and his visit was due - he explained - to an invitation from several organizations to attend the humanitarian emergency in Venezuela. "I told them that I was not even going to speak ill of the opposition (...) but in return I received an offensive attitude. They linked me with the government of Nicolás Maduro and told me that they only recognized a single opposition, which is that of Juan Guaidó.

Bertucci is also a Venezuelan businessman, whose name came up when he was singled out in the Panama Papers investigation for allegedly using tax havens. The deputy's name was among the more than 370 Venezuelans who used the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to hide assets and earnings in tax havens around the world. Some time later, he surprised with his candidacy for the presidential elections, and now he makes up the group of 277 deputies elected on December 6 in the parliamentary elections.