Juan Guaidó

Juan Guaidó was born on July 28th, 1983 in Vargas, Venezuela. Juan spent his childhood in Los Corales, a small town on the outskirts of La Guaira (a coastal city with the main maritime port and largest international airport in the country). His father is a former airline pilot, and his mother is a high school teacher. Juan Guaidó lived through the 1999 Vargas tragedy, a natural disaster that killed many of his closest friends and also destroyed his school and home, leaving him and his family homeless. The tragedy, according to his colleagues, influenced his political views after the newly elected government of Hugo Chávez provided an ineffective response to the disaster.  

Guaidó studied industrial engineering at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB).  At UCAB he was one of the founders of the Venezuelan Student Movement. After the 2007 Venezuelan protests, where Guaidó played an important role, he helped found “Voluntad Popular” party in 2009. During this time, he met his wife and mother of his children Fabiana Rosales an activist from Mérida, Venezuela.  

On January 2019 Guaidó was chosen as president of the National Assembly of Venezuela. Shortly after assuming the presidency of the parliament, he was sworn in as Interim President of the Republic due to the lack of a legitimate presidency in Venezuela as stated in articles 233 and 333 of the National Constitution. He fulfilled his obligation until December 2022 and during this time he was recognized as the Interim President of Venezuela by 60 countries and the OAS.