MADRID 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, received this Saturday at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, considered by the international community to be the elected president of Venezuela after the elections last July, and who He has expressed his intention to take office on January 10.
At the end of July, Venezuela held presidential elections after which President Nicolás Maduro reaffirmed himself as the winner, although the opposition denied the results and claims to have the electoral records that support the triumph of González, exiled in Spain and wanted by Justice. Venezuelan.
“Thank you for coming and thank you for being in our house because Argentina is always the home of the Venezuelans of the world,” Milei declared during the initial handshake with the Venezuelan opponent, while hundreds of compatriots from the diaspora gathered in the Plaza May to celebrate what the Venezuelan opposition considers a state visit.
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has also celebrated the beginning of the meeting on her X social network account with words of gratitude to President Milei for “all his support” for the opposition cause. “There is little left,” Machado assured in his message.
In the hours prior to the meeting and already in Argentina, González appeared in a short video to send “a cordial and affectionate greeting, especially to all the political prisoners and those asylum seekers in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas”, whose situation will occupy a place central in the meeting with Milei; six opponents who have been in the diplomatic headquarters for almost nine months, accused by Venezuela of terrorism, conspiracy and treason for their affinity with the opposition leader Machado.
González will hold, after his meeting with Milei, private meetings with ministers, deputies and other Argentine personalities, before leaving for Montevideo where also this Saturday he will meet with the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou.