THE former presidents Mariano Rajoy and Felipe González This Friday, they received Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of Venezuela. The Venezuelan diplomat arrived in Spain last Sunday, September 8, to request political asylum, due to Drug dictator Nicolás Maduro’s threats after his major blow in the presidential elections of July 28, after the United States and the international community recognized González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of those elections. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia75 years old, sHe met Rajoy and González a day after meeting with socialist President Pedro Sánchez. In this sense, he was looking for a photoshoot with the Venezuelan diplomat after order the socialists of the Congress to speak during the parliamentary debate on a non-legislative proposal of the PP against the recognition of Edmundo González as elected president of Venezuela. Rajoy acknowledged his “desire to establish democracy in Venezuela with him as president of the country”Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Felipe González called him “president-elect.”
This meeting takes place when the narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro declared war on Spain through the Venezuelan Assembly after welcoming Edmundo González Urrutia, who presented himself to Presidential elections after the drug dictator disqualified opposition leader Maria Corina Machado when he saw she was outperforming him in the polls.
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday 16 Venezuelan officials helped drug lord Nicolás Maduro to steal the July presidential elections and launch a strong persecution through Venezuelan institutions, kidnapped by Chavism, which forced the elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo González, to leave his country last Saturday and arrive in Spain on Sunday.
The Treasury Department has added officials from Venezuela’s Supreme Court, the National Electoral Council and military leaders to its staff. financial blacklistwhich freezes their assets in the United States and prohibits Americans from doing business with them.
Edmundo González Urrutia, 75-year-old retired diplomat, opposition consensus candidate, received 7.3 million votes compared to 3.3 million for Maduro in the presidential election of July 28, as confirmed in the Electoral registers made public by the opposition. These tally sheets were not recognized by the narco-dictator. Immediately after the elections, he ordered the hitmen to go and collect the aforementioned minutes from house to house of the members.
“Instead of respecting the will of the Venezuelan people as expressed in the elections, Maduro and his representatives falsely claimed victory while repressing and intimidating the democratic opposition in an illegitimate attempt to cling to power by force,” acknowledged Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, in a statement in which he also announced visa restrictions for figures from the drug dictator’s regime.
The regime had threatened to lock up González Urrutia accused of fomenting mass protests after opposition released election resultsleading Washington and other countries to recognize González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of the presidential election. The Biden administration’s announcement Thursday marks the first round of sanctions the United States has promised to impose on officials complicit in election fraud. Economic sanctions imposed under the Trump administration targeted the oil industry, as well as individual sanctions against Maduro and other senior officials.
