Edmundo González plans to meet with Joe Biden before January 10

As part of his international tour, Edmundo González Urrutia, a Venezuelan opposition leader who claims victory in the last elections in Venezuela, arrived in Buenos Aires this Saturday, where he met with the Argentine president, Javier Milei, at the Casa Rosada.

During his visit, the 75-year-old diplomat, exiled in Madrid since September, revealed that in the next few hours he will travel to the United States, where he plans to meet with President Joe Biden as part of his efforts to assume the presidency of Venezuela on December 10. January. “Tonight we leave for the United States,” he said. Edmundo González at a press conference, after meeting with the Argentine president, Javier Milei.

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Edmundo González Urrutiawho has challenged the legitimacy of Nicolás Maduro and has proclaimed his own victory in the Venezuelan elections, was received in Buenos Aires by a crowd of exiled Venezuelans, who applauded him as he greeted him from the balcony of the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Argentine government. With a Venezuelan flag and shouts of “Freedom, freedom!”, the protesters showed their support for the opposition leader.

At the same press conference, Edmundo González He announced that after his meeting with Milei, he would travel to Uruguay, Panama and the Dominican Republic, where he will continue to gather international support for his cause. Also on his agenda is a crucial meeting in Washington with President Biden, scheduled for the next few hours. This rapprochement with the US president is considered essential to strengthen his position against the Maduro regime, which he accuses of electoral fraud.

Edmundo González Urrutiawho has been the subject of persecution in Venezuela, also mentioned in his speech that a reward of $100,000 offered by the Venezuelan scientific police weighs on him. Despite this threat, the opposition leader remains firm in his intention to take possession of the presidency on January 10, the date on which he believes that Maduro should relinquish power.

This Saturday afternoon, González Urrutia will travel to Montevideo, where he plans to meet with the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou, and Foreign Minister Omar Paganini.

Edmundo González has the support of thousands of Venezuelans

After the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and Edmundo González Urrutia went out this Saturday to the balcony of the Casa Rosada to greet the thousands of Venezuelans gathered in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, it was the cries of Venezuelans that were heard in the mythical Plaza de Mayo by those gathered who consider Edmundo González the winner of the elections held in Venezuela on July 28.

The thousands of people who came to the doors of the Casa Rosada also raised slogans such as “Thank you Milei”, in reference to the Argentine president, who was the first Latin American leader to receive González on this tour that seeks to gather support to be able to take office. power in Venezuela on January 10, when President Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in again.

Milei, González Urrutia, the Argentine chancellor, Gerardo Werthein, the general secretary of the Presidency and sister of President Milei, Karina, and the wife of the Venezuelan opponent, Mercedes, who always accompanies him in his political battle, among others.

Milei gave the spotlight to González Urrutia, who greeted those gathered while they shouted “president, president” and received applause and cheers.

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The mass of people who chanted and applauded him constituted a tide of red, yellow and blue, the colors of the Venezuelan flag, as they carried banners, caps and t-shirts with those tones. The long greeting to the Venezuelans took place after a meeting inside the Casa Rosada, about which no information has been released for now.

Shortly before, Edmundo González broadcast a video message in which he expressed his commitment to those considered “political prisoners”, numbered at 1,794, according to the NGO Foro Penal, and the opponents asylum in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, guarded by Brazil due to Maduro’s decision to expel Argentine diplomats.

“We send a cordial and affectionate greeting, especially to all the political prisoners and those asylum seekers in the Argentine embassy in Caracas; that is and will be our concern in all the meetings that we will hold,” said the standard bearer of the majority opposition, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), through social networks.