Less than a week before the renewal of the government in Venezuela is celebrated, the president Javier Miley will receive this Saturday the Venezuelan president-elect, Edmundo González Urrutiain Casa Rosada. The meeting would not only confirm the support of the national government towards the opposition leader who denounced having suffered electoral fraud, but would highlight the break in the diplomatic relationship with the regime headed by Nicolas Maduro.
The visit to Argentina will be the first stop that the opposition representative will make within the framework of an international tour.where he will meet several presidents and political leaders from around the world, with the aim of preventing Maduro from assuming another presidential term. The deadline will be next Friday, January 10, when the mandate of the current authorities should end.
After the former Venezuelan ambassador to Argentina Elisa Trotta confirmed on social networks that the elected president of Venezuela had landed in Buenos Aires on Friday night, the human rights activist called on citizens to participate in a greeting to González Urrutia and Milei that will take place in the Plaza de Mayo at 10 in the morning.
From Command With Venezuela They stated that “within the framework of this important visit, we extend a cordial invitation to the entire Venezuelan community residing in Argentina to gather outside the Casa Rosada to accompany the President-Elect during this meeting,” referring to the fact that it is the first official meeting that Milei and González Urrutia will have.
For his part, González Urrutia had asked all Venezuelans to remain together “with the commitment to enforce that mandate in 2025” and for January 10 to be “the day of hugs, in the streets of our country, among all Venezuelans without distinctions or vendettas.”
“That day is the opportunity to leave behind words that promote hatred and division. It is the opportunity to move forward together, firmly and definitively, along the path of reunion and national unity,” the opposition leader, who is in exile in Spain, said in a message on the social network will activate an arrest warrant against him.
Once the meeting with the Argentine president ended, the Venezuelan leader confirmed that his next stop will be Uruguaywhere he would arrive the same Saturday afternoon to meet with the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle For. In addition, they anticipated that on January 8 he will be received by the head of state of Panama, José Raúl Mulinoand the 9th will already be found in Dominican Republicwhere he will visit the president Luis Abinader.
The decision for the tour to begin in Argentina would not be arbitrary, because The Argentine head of state was one of the first to recognize the victory of the Venezuelan leader during the presidential elections held on July 28, 2023. In parallel with the breakdown in the international relationship with Venezuela, the relationship between the Venezuelan opposition leader and the liberal president would have strengthened.
After the Argentine Government accused the Nicolás Maduro regime of having committed fraud in the elections, the Chavista dictatorship closed the Argentine Embassy in Caracas and expelled the national diplomatic corps. Since then, the national representation remained in the hands of Brazil, which also interceded in the protection and protection of the Venezuelan opposition leaders who took refuge in the building, in which the Argentine delegation knew how to operate.
However, the breakup triggered a diplomatic conflict between the Argentine and Venezuelan authorities, after the national government denounced the kidnapping of Nahuel Galloan Argentine gendarme who was detained in Immigration under the accusation of carrying out espionage activities against the dictatorship, despite the fact that in his sworn statement he had confirmed that he was traveling as a tourist to visit his wife and son.
In the midst of a tense back and forth between the representatives of both nations, the national government denounced to the International Criminal Court (CPI) the arbitrary detention and forced disappearance of Gallo, after the regime refused to release him and return him to his country of origin.
In the document that the national State presented before the international courts, the kidnapping of the gendarme was described as a “serious and flagrant violation of human rights” and they framed the alleged crime within an alleged “systematic pattern of crimes against humanity, which are being committed in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.” Likewise, they targeted the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saabaccusing him of participating in “conspiratorial actions against the republican peace” by defending dictatorial actions.
Prior to this, the Chavista regime had confirmed that the Argentine foreign minister, Gerardo Wertheinand the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrichhad been included in the case for alleged terrorism that they initiated against the gendarme. From the point of view of the Venezuelan Justice, public officials would have been responsible for orchestrating an alleged terrorist plan to overthrow Maduro.
However, the head of the national security portfolio supported the claim and denounced that the version given by the Chavista dictatorship would be a “conspiracy” against the Argentine authorities. “It’s one lie after another. They gather hostages to protect themselves from their own fears. Countries where people live in freedom do not need to collect hostages,” he noted during a conversation with this medium.
