Comando Con Venezuela confirmed that the date of the meeting between Edmundo González Urrutia and Javier Milei will take place this Saturday, January 4 and that it is part of an international tour carried out by the former diplomat
Edmundo González Urrutia will arrive in Buenos Aires in the next few hours and will be received by the president of Argentina Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada, seat of government. The visit of the former candidate in the presidential elections on July 28 occurs in the midst of tension between both countries due to the arrest of the Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo in Venezuela. On the other hand, Milei has declared that he does not recognize Nicolás Maduro’s victory in the recent elections.
The diary The Nation of Argentina had earlier reported the meeting between González Urrutia and Milei, according to official sources. However, the Venezuelan Command confirmed that the date of this meeting will take place this Saturday, January 4 and that it It is part of an international tour carried out by the former diplomat.
«Edmundo González Urrutia will begin his international tour with an official visit to the Republic of Argentina. This Saturday, January 4, he will be received by the president of Argentina, Javier Milei. The meeting will take place at the Casa Rosada,” indicated the Command for Venezuela in a statement published on social networks.
Likewise, the Venezuelan community residing in Argentina was invited to gather outside the headquarters of that country’s government to accompany him during the meeting.
Road to freedom!
Our elected president, @EdmundoGUwill be received this Saturday, January 4, by the president of #Argentina, @JMilei.
Venezuelans in Argentina will gather to receive him at the Casa Rosada.
Thus, the international tour begins prior to January 10.… pic.twitter.com/GdwNp3sEB2
— ConVzla Command (@ConVzlaComando) January 2, 2025
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González Urrutia is exiled from Venezuela and a few weeks ago he received political asylum in Spain. The Venezuelan authorities offer a reward of 100 thousand dollars for information to capture him.
The re-election of Nicolás Maduro in the July 2024 elections was strongly questioned by the opposition, which claims to have won and obtained more than 67% of the votes. The Chavista leader is preparing to assume a new mandate on January 10. González Urrutia, who claims to be the winner, told the agency days ago AFP who awaits the “beginning of a new era” because he will return to the country that same day. “We hope that that day marks the beginning of a new era, a democratic era, in Venezuela.”
The former diplomat arrives in Buenos Aires at the most delicate moment in Argentina’s relationship with Venezuela due to the arrest of gendarme Nahuel Gallo, who is in prison in Caracas in unknown conditions. Milei demanded his immediate release and denounced Prosecutor Tarek William Saab before the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We will exhaust all diplomatic channels to return him safely to Argentina,” said the Argentine president.
There is still no prospect of a way out of the dramatic situation with the Argentine gendarme. The Government has practically no links in Venezuelan territory and only has the assistance of Brazil, which according to high official sources is “cooperating as much as it can” with Argentina, with no solution in sight.
The Argentine Government, reported The Nationclung to the light of hope that the statement from the Attorney General’s Office of Venezuela gave him, which confirmed that the gendarme was “prosecuted for links to terrorist actions” and that he is being investigated for “serious acts that threaten the Nation.” so he will have to face a judicial process. One senior official summed it up this way: “He was a missing person and they had no choice but to whitewash him, even if it was in this disastrous way.” And he added: «We are working on several lines of complex execution and with results that remain to be seen. “The situation is very difficult.”
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*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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