A hundred Venezuelan opponents protested this Thursday at their country’s embassy in Mexico one day before the presidential inauguration in Venezuela, which both the current president, Nicolás Maduro, and the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia promised to assume.
The mobilization in the luxurious neighborhood of Polanco served to claim, once again, the opposition victory in the elections of July 28, 2024.
In Mexico City, as in other cities abroad and in Venezuela itself, Venezuelan opponents demonstrated in favor of the opposition leader María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, who in the previous days called on their compatriots abroad to go out to the streets.
“Freedom, freedom!” and “Edmundo president, Maduro criminal!” were the proclamations of the protesters, mostly of Venezuelan origin, who stood in front of the diplomatic headquarters of their country carrying Venezuelan flags.
“Maduro cannot be president because he lost the elections. The brave people of Venezuela chose who should be their president, they lost 2 to 1 and 85% of the minutes show it and Maduro could not prove it,” said Emilio Alvarez Icaza, former senator and Mexican politician, during the protest.
This day there were rallies in other capitals of the world. According to the organization Ganó Venezuela, protests were scheduled on five continents, and participants were urged to carry a flag of their country and wear yellow, blue or red.
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The largest mobilization took place in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, led by Machado, who highlighted the supposed victory of González, who in recent days carried out a tour of several countries before – as he has said – returning to Venezuela , from where he left last September to request asylum in Spain, to assume the Presidency.
González Urrutia was the figure at the rally scheduled in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the last country he visited to gather international support.
Also, concentrations occurred in the main European capitals and cities such as Paris, London or Berlin, and American cities such as Buenos Aires, Washington, New York, Bogotá, as well as Mexico City.
Maduro was proclaimed the winner of the July elections by the electoral body, controlled by the ruling party, based on results that are still unknown in a detailed manner, and rejected by a large part of the international community.
The opposition, which has shown supposed minutes that would prove Maduro’s defeat, has denounced fraud and claims the victory of González Urrutia.
With information from EFE
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