Iris Varela
This tweet immediately became highly controversial, and was denounced as inhumane, for using the incarceration of Requesens as either a joke or a threat, especially by the woman in charge of his conditions in prison.[12] In April 2019, Varela called Guaidó "garbage" on Twitter, saying that he assumes the direction of "a criminal gang that grotesquely steals money from the Venezuelan people with the gringos.""[13] In February 2019, one day after the burning of several trucks with humanitarian aid managed by Juan Guaidó together with other countries, Varela was planted together with several armed civilians, on the Francisco de Paula Santander international bridge that communicates to Venezuela with Colombia.[14] According to the NGO Control Ciudadano, Varela's presence together with armed civilians represented a violation of Venezuelan laws, since she has no competence in public order or defense of the nation.Another irregularity detected by the NGO was that armed civilians were not identified as officials of state security forces, who are the only ones authorized to carry the type of weapons that Varela's companions had.