The Washington Post: Recognized by U.S. as Venezuela’s President-Elect, Edmundo González Meets With Biden

The encounter, a first for the two men, signals Mr. Biden’s desire to present a broad coalition of support for Mr. González, who met with the right-wing president of Argentina, Javier Milei, over the weekend, and will meet with other regional presidents in the coming days.

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Pedro Mario Burelli, a veteran Venezuelan political operative and an opponent of Mr. Maduro’s movement, called the visit part of an effort to “freak him out” — to scare Mr. Maduro into believing that the global political tide is increasingly turning against him.

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Mr. González’s most important political backer, María Corina Machado, a conservative former lawmaker who threw her weight behind him after she was barred from running in the presidential election in July, has been in hiding in Venezuela for months. In a recent video message, she continued to encourage the armed forces to defect to her side. That also has not happened.

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Luz Mely Reyes, a prominent Venezuelan journalist, said that while Mr. Biden’s meeting with Mr. González marked an important moment, “Biden is leaving soon, and we have to see how the government of Donald Trump will act.”

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Laura Dib, a Venezuela analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group, said Mr. González needed a stronger show of support from Republicans.

Commentary & Notes:

Both Javier Milei and María Corina Machado are U.S. government puppets, who were backed by the Atlas Network. Here’s a list of crimes that Machado committed that disqualified her from the election. Pedro Mario Burelli is the former director of PDVSA who plotted to assassinate Nicolás Maduro in 2014, along with María Corina Machado. Luz Mely Reyes’ Efecto Cocuyo has been funded by the U.K. front Westminster Foundation for Democracy. The Washington Office on Latin America has received funding from the front organizations Ford Foundation, Luminate (Omidyar Network), Open Society Foundations, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The OAS is mentioned as well, which serves American imperialism.

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Guaidó 2.0 calls for mutiny within the FANB

I hope that they get the uniforms right for the defectors this time. /s

Readout of President Biden’s Meeting with President-Elect Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia of Venezuela

Biden claims that the “protests” were peaceful. 🙄

[07-28-2024] The Washington Post already called the Venezuelan election at 5 a.m. EDT