Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is expected to be a White House guest at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night on Capitol Hill, The Associated Press has learned. The invitation comes as Guaidó has been trying to win face time with Trump, his most important international
1 / 2Colombia PompeoColombian President Ivan Duque, right, talks to Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guadio at a ceremony marking one year since a car bomb attack at the police academy, during the inauguration of a regional anti-terrorism summit in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2020. Colombian government blames rebels of the National Liberation Army, ELN, for the bombing that killed at least 21 people on Jan. 17, 2019.
Guaido's attendance at the speech, which was first reported by Bloomberg News, was confirmed to the AP by two congressional source. They were not authorized to publicly disclose the information and spoke only on condition of anonymity. U.S. officials have called Maduro a “dictator,” and hit the state-run Venezuelan oil firm PDVSA with sanctions and other financial measures designed to push out the socialist leader. However, Maduro remains in control, having faced down a coup attempt, a brief renewal of mass anti-government protests and U.S. sanctions.
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