WASHINGTON: The United States said Tuesday it recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela -- the first ti...
The United States said Tuesday it recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela -- the first time it called him that -- four months after a disputed election in which incumbent Nicolas Maduro claimed victory amid accusations of fraud.
The statement marked the first time the United States has referred to Gonzalez Urrutia with that title, although President Joe Biden has previously said he won the election. Amid an outcry at home and abroad, the former bus driver handpicked by the late Hugo Chavez is now serving his third term in the oil-rich country whose economy is a shambles, as Venezuelans endure acute shortages of food, medicine and other basic goods.
Gil referenced Washington’s support in 2019 of then National Assembly Speaker Juan Guaido as acting president after Maduro’s contested reelection in 2018. Maduro’s disputed re-election has faced criticism from elsewhere around the globe, including the European Union, and led to massive protests in Venezuela, resulting in 28 deaths, almost 200 injured and some 2,400 protesters arrested, among whom 224 have ben released.
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