Tarre has written for CSIS about corruption , democracy , and the Chavista administrations in Venezuela , stating in 2018 : Rarely has a country lived , for a period of almost two decades , in a worse combination of incompetence , mediocrity , systematic theft of public goods and money , ideological perversion , pettiness , lack of scruples , and systematic violation of human rights . ... Corruption is not compatible with democracy . We have seen this story play out in Venezuela , Italy , Brazil , Greece — and now even more recently in Spain and Mexico . He was accused in 2014 by the then mayor of the Libertador Municipality , Jorge Rodríguez , of being one of the intellectual authors of an alleged plan to assassinate Maduro . Rodríguez claimed that María Corina Machado had written Tarre with instructions for carrying out " the plan " ; Henrique Salas Römer and Diego Arria were also accused . Nicolás Maduro 's administration accused him , again , of being an " intellectual author " of the Caracas drone attack against Maduro in 2018 . According to '' El País '' , Venezuelans Carlos Vecchio and Julio Borges were key in consultations with the Trump administration decision on 22 January to back Juan Guaidó in the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis . Guaidó began to appoint individuals in late January to serve as aides or diplomats , including Vecchio as the Guaidó administration 's diplomatic envoy to the US , Borges to represent Venezuela in the Lima Group , and Tarre as the special representative from Venezuela to the OAS
Caracas drone attack
Caracas drone attack
Gustavo Tarre