👉 El presidente electo y exiliado venezolano llegó a Buenos Aires, Argentina, como parte de una gira internacional tras pasar varios meses en Madrid. Fue recibido por el presidente Javier Milei y saludó a la diáspora venezolana desde el balcón de la Casa Rosada. Mientras tanto, en Caracas, Nicolás Maduro se prepara para reasumir su mandato. La visita de González Urrutia ocurre en un contexto de tensión entre Venezuela y Estados Unidos, con expectativas sobre el apoyo que pueda recibir de la nueva administración estadounidense.
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00:00Now we talk about the situation in Venezuela, because we told you at the beginning of this news that Edmundo González Urrutia
00:08arrived in Argentina in the framework of an international tour. After having spent several months in exile in Madrid,
00:15there in Spain, he first came to the city of Buenos Aires, where he was received by President Javier Milay last Saturday,
00:22where he was met half an hour in his office. And then they left, as you are seeing in the middle of this triptych,
00:28to greet nothing more and nothing less than the balcony of the Casa Rosada.
00:33To whom is good, apart from the Venezuelan diaspora that lives here in Argentina.
00:41Let's remember that they have a huge number of people who have left the country,
00:46about 6 million Venezuelans and Venezuelans have left the country and a good part have come here to Argentina.
00:52Well, this is one of the points. Obviously, the situation is also linked to the tension that our country has particularly
00:59with Venezuela these days and something that has been more complicated, that has stressed this more,
01:06has to do with the search of this soldier, punctually of this gendarme, Nahuel Gallo,
01:13who has not been known for more than 27 days what his whereabouts are.
01:18We are in communication with Gustavo Sierra, political analyst.
01:22Because Gustavo, in the middle of all this, there is a tour by Edmundo González Urrutia,
01:29which will take him to the United States, nothing more and nothing less. How are you? Good morning.
01:34Hello, how are you? Good morning. Yes, really this is a desperate attempt by the Venezuelan opposition
01:44to try to reverse the situation, because obviously, despite having won the elections last July,
01:53several months have passed in which they have obviously not been able to reverse the decision of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro
02:07to not recognize the results of that election and to send Edmundo González Urrutia to exile in Spain
02:18and to the leader of the opposition, who could not be the candidate, Mrs. Machado,
02:33who is in exile there in Venezuela, is in the clandestinity, in a European embassy,
02:45it is not known exactly in which, and then we have González Urrutia giving a tour that has been very successful
02:55here in Buenos Aires, as we know, with the mobilization of the Venezuelans in Plaza de Mayo,
03:01he was also in Montevideo, and he is going to Washington, which is already at the end of a transition,
03:10on January 20, Donald Trump assumes the new president, and he will supposedly meet with the current president Joe Biden,
03:21and a game that will have to do with powers in which González Urrutia would have to have the very clear support of the new administration.
03:36In that sense, Gustavo, the United States has been having a linear policy, I say, beyond being Democrats or Republicans,
03:46the situation regarding Venezuela is, let's say, based in the same sense,
03:52but while this is happening, there in Caracas, for his part, Nicolás Maduro,
03:57who ten days before the assumption of Donald Trump, next Friday, January 10,
04:01will be resuming his mandate again, based on what he considers, or what the electoral justice,
04:10which basically has everything to do with his alignment, has decided that they have been clean, transparent elections,
04:20as they qualify them, is filling, is filling the city of Caracas with security forces.
04:29Obviously, a dictatorship, the only thing it will do is that,
04:34is to try to create fear so that people do not mobilize.
04:39Maria Corina Machado called a mobilization for Thursday, the day before the assumption,
04:47and it has, obviously, Maduro is worried about this, we already know that the previous mobilizations were very important,
04:59and he will try, by all means, that this does not happen, and he will repress.
05:05Now, I would like to return to the United States, because I think that there is the key,
05:10and that it has to do with the fact that, from the political point of view, as you said,
05:15there is a total alignment with the Venezuelan opposition,
05:20and obviously, both Democrats and Republicans support it, let's say,
05:27grant the triumph to the opposition, and believe that González Urrutia is the new Venezuelan president.
05:37But at the same time, there is a double game that has to do with oil.
05:44Venezuela has a type of oil that is refined only in some type of refineries,
05:52and those are located in Texas.
05:55And that is where the United States is obtaining oil at a very low price,
06:01and that, in some way, cheats both Venezuela and the United States.
06:07On the one hand, the United States, as I told you, receives oil at a very low price,
06:12on the other hand, Venezuela cannot sell it to many other possible customers
06:18because they do not have the adequate refineries.
06:22This means that the oil lobby in the United States is pressuring the new Trump administration
06:30to take a more ambiguous attitude.
06:33That is, on the one hand, from a political point of view, with the new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
06:39obviously supporting the opposition, accusing the Venezuelan dictatorship,
06:47but at the same time maintaining that economic channel that gives a certain breath to the Venezuelan dictatorship.
06:58Yes, of course, because there is this kind of double-edged sword.
07:01On the one hand, the inevitable political claims for, as you said, any of the two parties,
07:08but on the other hand, something that also came a long time ago,
07:11because I remember when the situation with Guaidó was, at the time,
07:17there had been very strong support from the United States,
07:22but then those restrictions that were given even for Venezuelan businessmen
07:27began to become a little more labile, a little more, I don't know, delicate,
07:32I don't know how to qualify them, but these back and forth are not new.
07:37No, and notice that it also involves several Latin American countries,
07:42because the countries that should act as referees in the elections
07:50and would be the ones that can really pressure Maduro,
07:54which are Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, also took an ambiguous attitude.
08:00So the position...
08:04If they are not the OAS, let's say.
08:07No, of course not, but even Mexico in recent days
08:16gave signs of maintaining a natural relationship,
08:24let's say as if it were with a democratic government,
08:28after assuming the new Mexican president.
08:31That is to say, what we have is a great ambiguity
08:35and this is what gives air to the dictatorships.
08:39On the other hand, Venezuela is very much on the same path
08:47that Cuba has traveled in these 60, 70 years,
08:51which have to do with closing up and maintaining a relationship
08:58with a few friends who are the ones who give them the possibility of international trade.
09:06In the case of Venezuela, it is clearly Russia, Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah
09:15that also has an activity center there
09:22and there is an important commercial relationship with Lebanon
09:30and that also involves the Attorney General,
09:33who was the one who decreed the imprisonment of our gendarme.