**The Venezuelan opposition leader insists on taking what happened in Bolivia as an example** Juan Guaidó tried this Saturday to reactivate the opposition in the streets of Venezuela with two key messages. The first: take Bolivia as an inspiration, where protests over the deadline in the electoral count and the end of military support forced the departure of former president Evo Morales. The second: keep a sustained protest against the regime of Nicolás Maduro . "There are no magic solutions," he said at the rally in Caracas. Chavismo marched in support of Morales. "We have to insist until the power of the weapons is not on the side of the usurper, but on the side of the Constitution," Guaidó said before thousands of supporters concentrated in eastern Caracas. "It is the factor [that of the military] that we lack today, it is the factor that today must make a decision," added the opponent in a rally in which he spoke from a truck with a microphone, because of the impossibility of getting a supplier that he risks serving the opposition after several arrests of equipment dedicated to this logistics. Before the attendees, who filled three blocks, he called to join an agenda of protests next week, which included a student march to the main military headquarters in Caracas, Fort Tiuna, on Thursday. Although far from the mass demonstrations after the proclamation of Guaidó as interim president last January, Venezuela has not stopped protesting. Nearly 15,000 have been registered in the first 10 months of the year: due to blackouts, lack of water, gas, gasoline, medications, police abuse, low wages or hyperinflation. “It's time to insist, to keep us. There is an agenda of sustained protests. We have to demand the few who endure the dictatorship to join us. The street with no return means being in the street due to the lack of services, with the nurses, with the teachers, with the students. And we have to protest until free elections are held, ”said the head of parliament, recognized as interim president for more than 50 governments. Guaidó also insisted on using the emblem of Bolivia as a flag, to the point that, after the concentration and unexpectedly, he went with part of the people to the Embassy of that country in Caracas to support the new interim Executive. Among the attendees, however, the comparison was not seen so clearly. “Bolivia has serious Armed Forces, that is not going to happen here. We have been protesting for at least 18 years, we spent months on the street in 2014 and 2017 and nothing happened. I am clear that there are no magic solutions and that there are no messiahs, ”said Valentina Garcia, a 44-year-old nutritionist, who showed her discontent on the street. “What else I would like this to be the last day of protest, but perhaps it could be the beginning of another stage and that people get excited. Staying at home is not an option. ” The stagnation of the political struggle of the opposition and the sharpening of precariousness in everyday life have made Venezuela a tired society, which has had a price for the power of convocation of Guaidó. The leader did not make such an appeal for three months, after the mishaps with the entry of humanitarian aid, the failed military operation in April and the drift of the negotiations with Chavism initiated in Norway. The opposition leader is backed today by fewer people on the streets of Venezuela, although yesterday there was more than the general discouragement projected. Carmenza González, a nurse in a public hospital, recognizes him. This guild has been protesting for low wages for months and will soon go on a general strike alongside the teachers'. “We are very few who go out, because we are also very few. All my companions are leaving the country, all my family is gone. We are staying alone. Nor can we protest every day because we cannot leave patients alone and we have to work to eat, ”says the 67-year-old woman, who was carrying a banner calling for the resignation of Nicolás Maduro. In some capitals of the interior the mobilization was greater, as in Valencia, in the center of the country. But there was also intimidation of para-police groups in the States of Mérida and Amazonas. In Caracas, the police deployment was large and the Maduro government closed the subway to limit the transport of people and blocked access to the Internet and social networks, common practices in recent years. Riot agents threw tear gas at small groups that concentrated in the west, very close to where Maduro's followers met in support of Evo Morales. This was another diminished mobilization, which Maduro did not even attend. https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/11/16/america/1573937258_338858.html