Mystery about the whereabouts of Edmundo González: “I am very close, ready for safe entry”
“At the right moment, I will assert the votes that represent the recovery of our democracy,” he stressed.
The Venezuelan opposition Edmundo González Urrutiawho claims to be the winner of last July’s elections in Venezuela, affirmed this Friday that he is “very close” to his country, “ready for safe entry,” and stressed that Nicolás Maduro carried out a “coup d’état” in this day, when he was sworn in as president by the National Assembly, controlled by Chavismo.
In a solemn message to the nation transmitted by the social network He is not accompanied by the people, he is not accompanied by any government that is respected as democratic, only the dictators of Cuba, the Congo and Nicaragua“, in reference to the presidents Miguel Díaz-Canel, Denis Sassou-N’Guesso and Daniel Ortega.
“I am very close to Venezuela, I am ready for safe entry and, at the right moment, I will assert the votes that represent the recovery of our democracy,” highlighted González Urrutia, exiled in Spain since last September.
“I continue working,” he stressed, “on the conditions for my entry into Venezuela and assuming, as mandated by the Constitution and the people have ordered me, the presidency of the Republic and the command in chief of the National Armed Forces“he added.
González Urrutia assured that it represents the will of “almost 8 million Venezuelans within the country and that of the millions of compatriots who were prevented from voting abroad”, a commitment that it has “the duty to defend.”
In the message he also referred to the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machadowho today stated that she is “fine”, although with “strong pain and bruises in some parts” of her body, after being detained and later released by officials she identified as members of the Bolivarian National Police after participating in a demonstration in support of Edmundo González.
“As María Corina said, the decision to close the borders and bomb the military planes that guard the airspace sought to do with me in the air what they did yesterday with our leader, where unfortunately an innocent man was injured. This only speaks of their cowardice and their lack of scruples, but soon, very soon, even if they do what they do, we will manage to enter Venezuela and put an end to this tragedy,” González said.
Return to freedom
In this regard, he indicated that they are coordinating “all the essential factors to guarantee the prompt return to freedom. We will continue coordinating with that international democratic community who have responded to our call and continue to fight with us.”
Edmundo González pointed out that as “commander in chief” and “elected president” of Venezuela he orders “the military high command to ignore illegal orders given to them by those who confiscate power and to prepare their security conditions to assume the position of president of the Republic that entrusted popular sovereignty to me”.
“To the military and police forces I order the cessation of repression, to the national institutions I say, for the peace of the Republic, they must ignore the illegitimate regime that has sought to confiscate power again,” he added.
He addressed the people, promising: “we will not fail you. Our liberating father instilled in us the spirit of struggle and sacrifice for freedom, freedom always defeats tyranny and is the work of perseverance.”
González Urrutia finished an American tour in the Dominican Republic that also took him to Argentina, Uruguay, United States and PanamaHowever, until now it is not certain where he is currently, after not being able to reach his country, Venezuela.
For his part, former opposition deputy Juan Pablo Guanipa, who accompanied Machado this Thursday in the caravan in which he delivered his speech after 133 days in hiding, published a message in X on Friday night, where he said that the Venezuelans have “the responsibility of dismantling the Maduro farce.”
Guanipa accompanied the message with a video in which he called on his compatriots to “continue fighting” until they achieve “definitive freedom” and the establishment of a “true democratic system.”
“Swearing in as an elected candidate without having been chosen by anyone is a vile act that does not convince either those around him or his own family (…) Maduro is a dictator, a fake and the worst misfortune that has happened to our country “said the anti-Chavista.
The leader of Chavismo, Nicolas Madurowas sworn in this Friday as the president of Venezuela for the period 2025-2031 by the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), controlled by the ruling party, despite the fact that the majority opposition claims that Edmundo González Urrutia was the winner of the July elections. past.
