The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and Edmundo González Urrutia, went out this Saturday to the balcony of the Casa Rosada to greet the thousands of Venezuelans gathered in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Thus, the Venezuelan opposition leader has received the support of his compatriots on the first stop of a tour that will take him through several Latin American countries.
“President, president” and “freedom” were the cries that were heard in the mythical Plaza de Mayo by those gathered who considered González Urrutia the winner of the elections held in Venezuela on July 28.
The thousands of Venezuelans who came to the doors of the Casa Rosada also raised slogans such as “Thank you Milei.” The Argentine president has been the first Latin American leader to receive González Urrutia on this tour that seeks to gather support to be able to assume power in Venezuela on January 10, when President Nicolás Maduro plans to be sworn in again.
“Thank you for coming and thank you for being in our house because Argentina is always the home of the Venezuelans of the world,” Milei declared during the initial handshake with the Venezuelan opponent.
For her part, the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has also celebrated the beginning of the meeting on her X social network account with words of gratitude to President Milei for “all his support” for the opposition cause. “There is little left,” Machado assured in his message.
In the hours before the match and already in Argentina, González appeared in a short video to send “a cordial and affectionate greetingespecially to all the political prisoners and those asylum-seekers in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas”, whose situation will occupy a central place in the meeting with Milei; six opponents who have been in the diplomatic headquarters for almost nine months, accused by Venezuela of terrorism, conspiracy and treason due to his affinity with the opposition leader Machado.
González will hold, after his meeting with Milei, private meetings with ministers, deputies and other Argentine personalitiesbefore leaving for Montevideo where also this Saturday he will meet with the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou.
