Latin America and the Caribbean Illegal agreement between former Venezuelan MP and Paraguay

---

The head of the Paraguayan government cabinet, Juan Ernesto Villamayor, confirmed this Thursday how the former opposition deputy of the National Assembly (in contempt) of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, approved the cancellation of that country's debt with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.

The illegal agreement, uncovered by The Washington Post, expresses that the principle of understanding was part of the efforts of the leadership in contempt of the Venezuelan National Assembly, particularly Juan Guaidó, to seize the financial assets of the constitutional government of Nicolás Maduro abroad.

In the case of Paraguay, whose debt with the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA amounted to 269 million dollars, it had planned to cancel half of that debt with the presumed interim Venezuelan government, headed by Juan Guaidó and was not, ultimately, executed.

Villamayor showed, however, the documents of the minutes of the agreements between the government of Mario Abdo and the representatives of Juan Guaidó and which would ratify the removal of 50 percent of the debt from the capital and 100 percent of the interest, which he described as savings of more than 150 million dollars for the Paraguayan State.

That contract would have involved the payment of a commission of 26 million dollars to the Argentine lawyer, Sebastián Vidal, who, according to Paraguayan television, is the lawyer of the uncle of Paraguayan President Mario Abdo.

The illegal agreement had as a breeding ground the context of 2019, when Paraguay broke its diplomatic relations with Venezuela after rejecting a new mandate from Nicolás Maduro, who won the 2018 elections, the same ones in which the opposition refused to participate.

However, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez (a member of the anti-Venezuelan Lima Group who does not know Maduro, while acknowledging Guaidó), clarified that he would honor the debt with Venezuela, although his government tried to negotiate and pay only half, in attention to the financing circumstances of the opposition activities of the leadership of the Venezuelan National Assembly, in contempt, headed by Juan Guaidó.