The elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, declared this Saturday in Buenos Aires that in the next few hours he will travel to the United States and plans to meet with President Joe Biden as part of his international tour before January 10, when dictator Nicolás Maduro plans to take over the command that corresponds to the exiled former ambassador in Spain.
“Tonight we leave for the United States”González Urrutia said in a press conference after meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei. “We are planning a conversation with President Biden and we are waiting for definitions regarding the new authorities,” He added in reference to the next Donald Trump government.
The Argentine president Javier Milei received this Saturday morning at Casa Rosada the elected president of Venezuela not recognized by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, who proclaimed himself head of state in the last fraudulent elections in the Caribbean country. In the afternoon, González Urrutia will travel to Uruguay to meet with President Luis Lacalle Pou.
González Urrutia also confirmed that, as part of his tour of Latin America before the presidential inauguration in Venezuela, will be on January 8 in Panama, where he will meet with the president José Raúl Mulino, and on Thursday the 9th he will travel to the Dominican Republicwhere he will hold a meeting with the president Luis Abinader.
January 10 is the date on which the new president of Venezuela, elected on July 28, must take office. González Urrutia plans to arrive in the country that Friday, despite the arrest warrant issued against him by the Chavista regime, to “defend the decision of the popular will”. The opposition coalition Democratic Unity Platform (PUD) maintains that González Urrutia was the winner of the presidential elections, while they assure that the official result, which gave re-election to Nicolás Maduro, is “fraudulent.”
On the other hand, Chavismo began the year with a series of activities called for January 10, when Maduro assures that he will go to the National Assembly (Parliament) to take office for a third consecutive six-year term in power.
Argentina is unaware of Maduro’s re-election, as is the United States, the European Union and several Latin American countries.
Maduro’s proclamation sparked protests that left 28 dead and about 200 injured, in addition to 2,400 detained. Three of those arrested died in prison.
In September, Edmundo González Urrutia decided to seek political refuge in Spain after being accused by the Chavista Prosecutor’s Office of “conspiracy” and “criminal association” in Venezuela.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
