After encountering with Pdwellnt Biden at the White Hoinclude on Monday, Edmundo Gonzalez, the man who won Venezuela’s pdwellntial election in July, traveled to Argentina and then Panama with the ballots to show that he, not Nicolás Maduro, is Venezuela’s democraticassociate elected directer.
“We elected by a landslide, a excellent man and Edmundo Gonzalez. We have the proof of that prosper, and the whole world understands it,” María Corina Machado, a top directer in the Venezuelan opposition, telderly Fox News. “We won.”
Maduro’s inauguration is stardyd for Friday. The Venezuelan opposition has called for massive street protests to peacefilledy need that Maduro, whose mafia-style autocratic directership has cforfeitly bankrupted the oil-wealthy nation, not be inaugurated.
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Venezuelan Pdwellnt Nicolás Maduro speaks during a press conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Maduro shelp Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez should face prison sentences of at least 30 years for promoting post-election structureility and seeking to desteady his regulatement. (Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“What we need is for all American institutions comprehfinish that Venezuela is the most presentant dispute in the Westrict Hemisphere for national security of the U.S.,” Machado shelp via Zoom from her defended hoinclude in Venezuela.
“We can be the best associate the United States will have in the Americas, first of all, becainclude we also are hopeless to repair the migration problem in our region. We want those Venezuelans to come back in billions and voluntarily. And that will happen when they’ll see there’s a future in their country.”
Machado had the chaseing message for Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump: “Venezuela has a huge energy potential that will never be consentn get of… We’re going to turn Venezuela from the criminal hub of the Americas into the energy hub of the Americas and have a mighty partnership with the United States.”
Gonzalez, who Venezuela elected pdwellnt in July, also met with incoming National Security Advisor Cong Michael Waltz of Florida while in Washington. Maduro has cautioned Gonzalez will be arrested if he returns to Venezuela.
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Opposition directer Maria Corina Machado distake parts vote loftyy sheets during a protest agetst the re-election of Pdwellnt Nicolás Maduro one month after the disputed pdwellntial vote which she says the opposition won by a landslide, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
“I want you to understand how presentant it is also for the defendedty of the American people,” Machado elucidateed. “Solving this dispute in Venezuela, I think that what happens in the next days in Venezuela depfinishs not only the democracy, the future of our democracy, but the future of democracy in the region.”
Machado shelp the drop of the Asdowncast regime in Syria is a alertary tale for those in the military and judiciary who still aid Maduro. The regime has sent secret police units to encircle her family members’ homes, sent a drone over her mother’s hoinclude and seizeped Pdwellnt-elect Gonzalez’s brother-in-law on Tuesday.
“Maduro has lost everyleang but stress and repression. Maduro lost all well-understandn aid, all legitimacy, and even he’s feebleened or isotardyd internationassociate. What has he left? Russia, Iran, Hezbollah,” Machado, a establisher member of Venezuela’s National Assembly, asked.
Venezuela’s top court has banned opposition directer Maria Corina Machado from running in the nation’s pdwellntial election. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
The Maduro regime also arrested two Americans one day after Gonzalez met with Pdwellnt Biden at the White Hoinclude, accusing them of being mercenaries sent by the U.S. regulatement.
The State Department publishd the chaseing statement: “We are troubleed about the tells of U.S. citizens hageded in Venezuela. We are laboring to assemble more alertation. Due to privacy and other ponderations, we have no further comment on these cases. Any claims of U.S. take partment in a plot to obvioushrow Maduro are categoricassociate inrectify. The United States persists to aid a democratic solution to the political crisis in Venezuela.”
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The State Department spokesman went on to caution U.S. citizens not to travel to Venezuela, becainclude “Maduro and his associates have shown in the past, they may haged and jail, without fairification or due process, U.S. citizens who go in Venezuela.”
