Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who is living in exile, is set to begin an international tour that will include a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei, a vocal critic of the Venezuelan regime. Gonzalez, who claims to be the rightful president of Venezuela, fled the country after a contested election in July.
Venezuela ’s exiled former presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, will return to South America this week in a show of defiance as Caracas prepares to inaugurate current President Nicolas Maduro , who has been in office since 2013. González’s first stop: a meeting with Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires on Saturday.
Milei has been a vocal critic of the Venezuelan regime, calling Maduro a “criminal” after Venezuela expelled Argentina’s diplomats in the aftermath of the contentious election, which was marred with allegations of vote rigging. The meeting with Milei marks the start of González’s “international tour,” according to a statement from his press team released this Thursday, which did not provide further details. It is unclear where else González plans on going during his tour; he has previously pledged to return to Venezuela to inaugurate his own government. The former diplomat fled the country in September and sought asylum in Spain after a warrant was issued for his arrest by Venezuela’s public prosecutor’s office, amid a crackdown on the country’s opposition movement. The warrant capped off a fractious few months, which saw Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), a body stacked with Maduro allies, formally declare the longtime strongman the winner of the July 28 election -– without providing voting tallies. The official results attracted widespread skepticism from abroad as the opposition insisted that it had won, releasing tens of thousands of voting tallies gathered from across the country, that they said proved González won by a landslide. The United States and Argentina, among others, have gone on to recognize González as Venezuela’s rightful president-elect. But Maduro has repeatedly dismissed claims that the vote was stolen, and says he is ready to begin a new term on January 10. For González, returning to Venezuela would be filled with ris
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