Venezuelan President-elect Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia recently met with Florida lawmakers during his diplomatic trip to Washington, D.C.
President-elect Gonzalez met with lawmakers prior to his return to Venezuela on January 10th to demand he be inaugurated as Venezuela’s legitimate president.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado also virtually joined the meetings, which Gonzalez described as demonstrating how Venezuela is a “cause for everyone.”
Among the lawmakers Gonzalez met with were Florida Republican Representatives Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz Balart, and Carlos Gimenez.
The representatives have all consistently supported and endorsed the Venezuelan political opposition’s quest for realizing democracy and ending Dictator Nicolas Maduro’s tyrannical regime.
“We will always be on the side of freedom and democracy in Venezuela,” said Representative Salazar. “The brave Venezuelan people have our full support!”
Gonzalez also met with President-elect Donald Trump’s newly appointed National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz.
Waltz and Gonzalez reportedly discussed upcoming global protests set for January 9th to pressure Dictator Maduro into relinquishing power.
Gonzalez claimed Waltz assured him that “the United States, and the world, will be alert to what happens in our country.”
Gonzalez was elected during Venezuela’s Presidential elections last July.
Venezuela’s elections follow failed negotiations between Venezuela’s government and President Biden’s administration over electoral assurances in exchange for sanctions relief.
Despite promises of allowing free and fair elections, the Venezuelan regime barred opposition leader Machado from participating in the same.
Machado then invested her political capital into Gonzalez, who subsequently won the presidential elections.
Despite Gonzalez’s victory, Maduro’s electoral commission declared Maduro as the winner without showing proof of the votes he received while subsequently coercing Gonzalez into departing Venezuela.
