Guaidó and some of his closest associates were part of a rightwing youth group, “Generation 2007,” that sought to overthrow the Chavez government. The group included Leopoldo López, a Princeton-education man who came from one of Venezuela’s richest families and was
nytimes.com/1981/09/29/obituaries/betancourt-ex-venezuela-chief-dies.html >Mr. Betancourt was an admitted leftist but he was also a staunch anti-Communist, a view he attributed to his short membership in the Communist Party in Costa Rica when he was a 22-year-old political refugee. He said membership in the undemocratic organization had been like a youthful attack of smallpox that left me immune to the disease.