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
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While
tweeting that she had taken charge of Venezuela’s Embassy in Costa
Rica on February 20, Maria Faría demonstrated that she was more
familiar with the conventions of social media than those dictating
international diplomacy.
“In
fulfillment of the diplomatic functions, assigned by President Juan
Guaido”, tweeted Faría, referring to the US-appointed leader
of Venezuela’s parallel coup government, “we assume control of
the administrative headquarters of the Embassy of Venezuela in San
Jose”.
The
surprise announcement came early Wednesday morning from inside the
Embassy, leading many to wonder how Faría, or “@Mandyfaria26” —
who describes herself in her Twitter bio as the “Diplomatic
Representative for the Venezuelan Republic” in Costa Rica — was
able to secure access to the Embassy.
A senior
Venezuelan official told the Grayzone that Faría and her
entourage were able to access the building by paying its owner to
hand over the keys.
Once
inside, Faría seemed to believe she could tweet her way to
legitimacy, just as the presidency of her boss, Juan Guaido, had been
announced on Twitter by US President Donald Trump.
But
getting her foot in the door would be the least of Faría’s
challenges. Within hours the young diplomatic wannabe had managed to
offend her host country and demonstrate her lack of qualifications
for the job.
The
fail-daughter of an exiled coup plotter, her clownish behavior was
hardly unique to a government that existed only in cyberspace and the
fever dreams of John Bolton. Beyond its illegal occupation of the
Costa Rican embassy, Guaido’s gang had no Foreign Ministry, let
alone any physical address to govern from.
A month
into their shadow puppet government, the attempt to barge into the
consular space exposed the desperation behind their search for
legitimacy.
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