Republican Senators Bill Cassidy (Louisiana) and Rick Scott (Florida) issued messages against the repressive action carried out by the ruler Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, as well as the threats of arrest against María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy and Rick Scott, both Republicans, warned on Tuesday 27 of a “strong response” from their country if any harm is done to opposition leader María Corina Machado and diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, who they say is the country’s president-elect.
On their social media, both senators issued messages against the repressive action carried out by the ruler Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, as well as the threats of arrest against Machado and González Urrutia.
“It is important for the free world to remind the tyrannical Maduro regime that any action against Maria Corina Machado, the head of Venezuela’s opposition, and the duly elected President Edmundo Gonzalez, will be met with a strong response. Elections have consequences,” Cassidy said in a statement. a post from the social network X.
For its part, the Senator Scott He said that Maduro – whom he describes as a “dictator” – “is becoming desperate as his power disappears,” and urged people to take his “threats” against Machado seriously.
He also accused the Joe Biden administration of a ““weak appeasement” towards Cuba and Venezuela, which in his opinion “has allowed Maduro to maintain his grip on power for too long.”
“It is imperative for the national security of the United States, the stability of the Western Hemisphere, and the fight for democracy in Venezuela that the Biden-Harris administration reimpose sanctions, recognize Edmundo González as president-elect and call on the world to end the tyrannical Maduro regime now,” the Republican senator said.
Dictator Nicolás Maduro is getting desperate as his power fades and his threats against @MariaCorinaYA must be taken seriously. Maduro should know this: I am doing everything in my power as a United States Senator to pursue Maduro and his…
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) August 27, 2024
The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office has summoned González Urrutia for this Tuesday, the 27th, “in order to give a statement” regarding the “publication and maintenance” of the website resultadosconvzla.com, where the opposition published the voting records collected by its witnesses and which both the MP and the Supreme Court of Justice have described as “forged.”
Opposition leader María Corina Machado has also been singled out by government officials as a “terrorist” and responsible for the “violence” and protests against the results of the presidential elections announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the early hours of July 29, in which Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner.
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