Meet Juan Guaido’s first ambassador, fake Twitter diplomat slammed by Costa Rica for ‘unacceptable entry’
Maria
Faría, the daughter of a would-be Hugo Chávez assassin, illegally
barged into Venezuela’s embassy in Costa Rica and declared herself
ambassador. The embarrassing stunt highlighted everything wrong with
Juan Guaidó’s reality-show government.
by
Anya Parampil
Part
3 - The ghosts of terrorist past
Multiple
journalists took to social media to note that two of the men who led
the attack on the embassy appeared to be the sons of Eduardo Manuitt,
the former governor of Guarico state in Venezuela. Manuitt is a
former Chavista who turned against the movement after the United
Socialist Party of Venezuela refused to support his daughter’s
efforts to succeed him as governor. He had been in hiding since 2009
in order to avoid an arrest warrant over corruption charges alleging
he pocketed government funds while in office.
But the
Manuitt boys were not the only children of shady characters involved
in storming Venezuela’s Embassy in Costa Rica. In fact, the new
“diplomatic representative” Faría hails from a family of failed
coup plotters.
In 2005,
Faría’s father, retired National Guard Colonel Jesus Faría
Rodriguez, was sentenced to nine years in prison for his involvement
in the Daktari Farm case, a foiled plot to attack the military and
assassinate then-President Hugo Chavez with Colombian paramilitary
men disguised in Venezuelan military garb. Colonel Faría’s
brother, Dario, and nephew, Rafael, were also sentenced in the case.
In 2006,
the elder Faría miraculously escaped from prison, along with Dario
and Rafael. A Denver Post article from that year features a
photograph of young Maria Faría bearing a poster calling for her
father and his relatives to be freed.
Thirteen
years later, she would join in the family tradition of clumsily
botched attempts at sedition.
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