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
4 - Government by Instagram
Little
is known about what qualified Maria to represent the Venezuelan
people from San Jose, or about her professional career at all. An
article published in El Nacional at the time of her father’s
prison escape revealed that the colonel had “three children: two
boys and a female who has just graduated as an accountant”.
The
Faría family virtually disappeared from the public eye after the
prison break. In fact, Maria only posted her first Instagram photo on
February 1st, weeks after Washington’s coup attempt was underway.
Instagram
posts she published since that day combine gushing pro-Guaido
sentiment with right-wing talking points about US humanitarian aid
and photos of a woman who appears desperate to look the part of an
international power-player. Her ambitions culminated with her Twitter
proclamation of control over the Venezuelan Embassy in Costa Rica.
But then reality set in.
According
to Costa Rica’s Vice Foreign Minister, Faría’s entry to the
Embassy “injures elementary diplomatic norms of respect and
trust in relations in the international community, and above all, in
international law.”
These
words perfectly summed up the whole absurd spectacle of the
Washington backed coup attempt.
While
Guaido may have fooled some when declaring himself president from the
streets of Caracas, Faria learned the hard way that it would take
more than social media optics campaigns and bribery to declare
herself a diplomat. But within Guaido’s right-wing gaggle, there
seems to be little interest in the rule of law. It is a collection of
unknown backbenchers, amateurs, and elite hooligans that equate
Twitter proclamations with governmental legitimacy.
At least
in this respect, Faria is the perfect representative.
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