Javier Milei, president of Argentina, and Edmundo González Urrutia went out to the balcony of the Casa Rosada this Saturday to greet the thousands of Venezuelans gathered in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, in the Venezuelan opposition leader’s first stop on a tour of several Latin American countries. “President, president” and “freedom” were the cries that were heard in the mythical Plaza de Mayo by the attendees who considered González Urrutia the winner of the elections held in Venezuela on July 28.
The thousands of people who came to the doors of the Casa Rosada also raised slogans such as “Thank you Milei”, in reference to the Argentine president, who was the first Latin American leader to receive González Urrutia on this tour that seeks to gather support to be able to take office. power in Venezuela on January 10, when President Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in again.
Milei, González Urrutia, the Argentine Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, the Secretary General of the Presidency and sister of President Milei, Karina, and the wife of the Venezuelan opponent, Mercedes, who accompanies him, came out to the balcony of the Casa Rosada (headquarters of the Argentine Executive). always in his political battle, among others.
Milei gave the spotlight to González Urrutia, who greeted the opposition’s followers who were carrying banners, caps and t-shirts with the Venezuelan flag. After the appearance of González Urrutia, the Argentine president took his hand and both raised them in a greeting while “thank you Milei” was heard among those gathered. The long greeting to the Venezuelans took place after a meeting inside the Casa Rosada, about which no information has been released for now.
Shortly before the meeting, González Urrutia broadcast a video message in which he expressed his commitment to those considered “political prisoners”, numbered at 1,794, according to the NGO Foro Penal, and the opponents asylum in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, guarded by Brazil for Maduro’s decision to expel Argentine diplomats.
“We send a cordial and affectionate greeting, especially to all political prisoners and asylum seekers in the Argentine embassy in Caracas; “That is and will be our concern in all the meetings we will hold,” said the standard-bearer of the majority opposition, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), through social networks.
González Urrutia began a tour this Saturday in Argentina that will continue in Uruguay, Panama and the Dominican Republic until January 10, when he plans to go to Venezuela despite the arrest warrant issued against him by the Government of Nicolás Maduro. January 10 is the date on which the new president, elected on July 28, must take office. The Democratic Unitary Platform insists that González Urrutia was the winner of the presidential election, while they affirm that the official result, which gave re-election to Nicolás Maduro, is “fraudulent.”
Likewise, 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.
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