The Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González Urrutia has begun his international tour this weekend before attempting to take possession next January 10th.
Although the National Electoral Council (CEN) gave Maduro the winner after the elections, not even the voters of Urrutia nor does a large part of the international community consider it valid this result.
First stop, Argentina
Thus, Edmundo González, self-proclaimed president, has begun an international tour that began in Argentina. Javier Milei, who recognizes the Venezuelan opposition as legitimate president, He received him at the Casa Rosada. Later, in the Plaza de Mayo thousands of Venezuelans welcomed the group of “Long live free Venezuela!” or “Edmond President!”
Urrutia has appealed to his compatriots and has urged them “not to lose faith because this is a very long and very hard campaign that is about to end.” At the same time, he thanked the Argentine president for recognizing him “as elected president of Venezuela” and for his “moral support.”
Next stop, Uruguay
The next stop was Uruguay, where has met with the chancellor, Omar Paganini, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Uruguayan PresidentLuis Lacalle Pou.
Paganini has assured that Edmundo González is “the elected president of Venezuela” because “in the July 28 elections Edmundo came out clearly victorious by quite a majority. (…) More than 85% of the minutes have been compiled.”
Outside the residence of the Uruguayan president there were thousands of Venezuelans to whom Urrutia conveyed “a message of hope, a message of faith that we are going to achieve the recovery of Venezuela“. He also thanked Lacalle Pou for his solidarity “in the Venezuelan cause.”
He wants to meet with Joe Biden
Edmundo González is going to continue his tour until January 10. First he will visit Panama, then the Dominican Republic and, finally, the United States, where he intends to meet with Joe Biden.
On him weighs a arrest warrant launched by the Bolivarian National Police of Venezuela that offers 100,000 euros in exchange for his surrender and accuses him of crimes of “conspiracy, complicity in the use of violent acts against the Republic, usurpation of functions among others.
The opponent has been exiled in Spain since September due to the “police and political persecution” he suffered.
