Edmundo González arrived in Guatemala, during his tour of America, in search of international support

Coming from the Dominican Republic, Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González Urrutia landed at around 2:30 p.m. local time (8:30 p.m. GMT) at the La Aurora international airport in Guatemala City, where will meet on Wednesday, January 15, with the Guatemalan president, Bernardo Arévalo de León, as confirmed by officials.

González Urrutia arrived in Guatemala four days after Nicolás Maduro will be sworn in as president of Venezuela.

González Urrutia’s visit to Guatemala is part of a tour he is carrying out through America in seeking international support before an eventual return to Venezuela.

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“Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia “He landed in Guatemala and plans to meet with President (Bernardo) Arévalo on Wednesday.”the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry announced in a WhatsApp message to journalists.

González Urrutia, who was in Santo Domingo since last Wednesday night at the close of an international tour, He traveled on a private flight that landed in an area of ​​the La Aurora international airport shortly after 2:30 p.m. local (8:30 p.m. GMT).

Accusing Maduro of fraud, González Urrutia had assured that he would travel to Caracas to be sworn in last Friday, the day of the investiture, but the head of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado, ruled it out due to lack of security “conditions.”

From Santo Domingo, the 75-year-old diplomat said that day that Maduro carried out a “coup d’état” when he was sworn in, supported “by brute force and ignoring popular sovereignty.” He “crowns himself a dictator,” he said.

During his visit to Panama last Wednesday, before traveling to the Dominican Republic, the opposition delivered the minutes to the Panamanian government in custody which he claims prove his victory in the elections last July 28.

The electoral authority proclaimed Maduro the winner with 52% of the votes, but to date the detailed count has not been published, as required by law. The opposition claims that González Urrutia won with 70% of the votes.

Exiled in Spain in September after an arrest warrant against him, the opponent Ten days ago he began a tour in search of international support, which took him, in addition to the Dominican Republic and Panama, to Argentina, Uruguay and the United States.

The president of Guatemala, who is unaware of Maduro’s victory, maintains that In Venezuela the Inter-American Democratic Charter has been violated and last Friday he held a virtual meeting with González Urrutia and Machado to express his support.