*The opposition leader, who is prohibited from leaving the country, redoubled the challenge to Maduro.* Juan Guaidó, recognized as the interim president of Venezuela for almost 60 countries, has left the country this Sunday, despite being banned from leaving, heading to Bogotá, where he will meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday. Guaidó redoubled the challenge to Nicolás Maduro, who in recent weeks has maneuvered to detract power from the opposition leader in the National Assembly. Guaidó will hold a working meeting this Sunday with Colombian President Iván Duque and, according to sources close to Guaidó, with Elliott Abrams, special envoy from the United States to Venezuela. The same sources say that Guaidó's intention is that after the Hemispheric Summit against Terrorism on Monday, he will make an international tour, which would include Europe and its participation in the Davos forum. It is the second time that Guaidó leaves Venezuela after, a year ago, he became president of the National Assembly. At the end of February last year , he crossed the border with Colombia to participate in the attempt to enter humanitarian aid through border crossings, an operation that failed . Chavismo allowed him to enter the country again, at a time when the opposition leader had much more internal strength than he has in recent months. “We will generate the conditions that will lead us to freedom. And I assure you that the return to our country will be full of good news, ”Guaidó wrote on Sunday, after Duque confirmed his arrival in Bogotá. The turn taken by the opposition leader, a movement that remained in the maximum reserve, strengthens the support of the United States to Guaidó, at a time when the pressure that the opposition leader was achieving inside his country had undermined. The Colombian president, Iván Duque, informed that on Sunday afternoon he will hold a working meeting with Guaidó at the Casa de Nariño when confirming his arrival in Bogotá. Since coming to power in August 2018, Duque has been a fierce critic of the “dictatorship” of Maduro and one of the greatest supporters of Guaidó, whom he recognizes as the president in charge. Colombia, which shares more than 2,200 kilometers of border with Venezuela and welcomes more than 1.6 million Venezuelan migrants, is one of the most enthusiastic members of the Lima Group and has promoted the “diplomatic siege” against the regime in tune with Washington Chavista The Colombian president also confirmed that Guaidó will participate on Monday in the Hemispheric Summit to Combat Terrorism, along with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The summit will take place at the cadet school of the police in Bogotá, the same place where a year ago the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last active guerrilla in Colombia, attended with a car bomb that killed 22 young people uniformed. The Duke Executive has insistently denounced, even before the UN, that Maduro has given refuge to terrorist groups on the other side of the border, alluding to both the ELN and the FARC dissidents. The clandestine exit of Guaidó from Venezuela takes place a few days after the Chavismo strategy was strengthened to weaken its power in the National Assembly. The ruling party recognizes, from January 5, the dissident opposition deputy Luis Parra as president of Parliament, despite the opposition calling that election fraudulent. Guaidó renewed his mandate in a parallel session at the headquarters of a newspaper, crediting more support than Parra. The last Guaidó movement is known on the same day that the Washington Post publishes an interview with Nicolás Maduro in which the Venezuelan president claims to have control of the country's internal situation and that he would be willing to engage in a direct dialogue with States United. This week, during the accountability to the Chavez National Constituent Assembly, Maduro invited the European Union and the United Nations Organization (UN) to participate in the electoral observation of the parliamentary elections to be held this year. The first clandestine exit of Guaidó from Venezuela, in February of last year, was surrounded by controversy. Over the months, some photos were known in which the opposition leader appeared alongside several paramilitary leaders of the Los Rastrojos group, who would have helped him cross the border between Venezuela and Colombia, a territory generally controlled by criminal groups. Guaidó denied this newspaper in December that he had received any collaboration from these subjects. https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/19/america/1579446036_760932.html