Venezuela’s Guaidó Returns Home to Ramp up Pressure to Oust Maduro

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido returned home on Feb. 11 to clashes at Caracas’s international airport after completing a three-week trip abroad.

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who many nations have recognized as the country's rightful interim ruler, speaks at a gathering in Caracas, Venezuela on Feb. 11, 2020. Manaure Quintero/Reuters

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó returned home on Feb. 11 to clashes at Caracas’s international airport after completing a three-week trip abroad, which saw him meet world leaders as he seeks to rebuild momentum to oust his socialist rival, President Nicolás Maduro.

Days after Guaidó was received at the White House by President Donald Trump and visited the World Economic Forum in Davos, he was met by crowds of supporters as well as pro-Maduro agitators who shouted insults and hit his car with sticks and traffic cones.