Edmundo González is the president-elect from Venezuela, says the US; They make a fool of themselves, they turn Caracas
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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, p. 23
Washington. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, yesterday described the opponent Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela for the first time, a decision with which the Bolivarian Republic considered that the government of outgoing President Joe Biden makes a fool of himself.
Meanwhile, the United States tightened the siege on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, with a bill that prohibits signing contracts with people or companies that do business with the government of that country, not recognized by Washington.
The Venezuelan people spoke emphatically on July 28 and made EdmundoGU the elected presidentBlinken wrote in X, using González’s username on the social network. Democracy requires respect for the will of the votershe added.
The United States recognized in August that the opponent obtained more votes than Maduro, but had not referred to him as president-electuntil now. In 2019, Donald Trump’s government recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó legitimate president after describing Maduro’s re-election in 2018 as fraudulent.
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, called González Guaidó 2 and declared Blinken “a confessed enemy of Venezuela.
The only place you don’t come back from is ridicule, the popular saying goes.Gil wrote on the Telegram messaging network, referring to Blinken. The literary plan of one more Secretary of State, who sank, along with his puppets, trying to reverse Venezuelan democracy, never fails.he added.
González, who lives in Spain after the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office issued an arrest warrant against him for the dissemination of alleged minutes that supported his victory, thanked Blinken in X: This gesture honors the desire of our people for change and the civic feat that together we carried out on July 28.
The United States, the European Union and even Venezuela’s leftist allies such as Brazil and Colombia have called for the publication of the voting records, which are considered definitive proof of the results, as occurred in previous elections.