Uruguay stops recognizing Edmundo González as elected president in Venezuela

This was clarified Mario LubetkinNew Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay in the Centering Government of President Orsi, according to the website of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

“We do not recognize Maduro or the president who claimed to have triumphed according to the minutes he showed on the Internet,” The Foreign Minister said, he added that “if there are the Peace Agreements of Oslo (1993, between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the OLP), why can’t those of Montevideo (on Venezuela)?”

The previous government of Luis Lacalle Pou had recognized, on the other hand, González as elected president, who had received an emphatic support from the former president in Montevideo on January 4.

During the interview, Lubetkin was consulted on who he is, for the new Uruguayan government, the president of Venezuela.

Faced with this question, the official said that the new administration does not recognize “the situation based on how the electoral process was given. That does not change.”

He added: “We have, yes, a problem: the relations between Uruguay and Venezuela are at zero, the embassies are almost closed. What do we do with the thousands of Uruguayans who are in Venezuela? Who protects them? Someone asked me if this means the restoration of diplomatic relations and my answer is not.”

He then rejected the idea that Venezuela has no president. I would not say that because there is a reality that controls the country, “he said and argued:” There is a precise control of state management, the economy. That does not mean recognition. ”

On August 2, 2024, a few days after the failed elections in Venezuela, the former Uruguayan chancellor Omar Paganini wrote on social networks: “Depending on the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to Uruguay that Edmundo González Urrutia obtained most votes in the presidential elections of Venezuela. We hope that the will of the Venezuelan people will be respected.”

President Luis Lacalle Pou immediately repossed Paganini’s message in his X account and then, in statements to the press he said: “If you don’t show the documents, it is obvious that there is something strange. But, in addition, we are not talking about someone who has democratic history. I have said that Venezuela is a dictatorship and I hold it. ”

Lacalle Pou also pointed out that it is “indefensible” what is happening and said it is incredible “how power can blind someone” ”