Venezuela | Edmundo González Urrutia: Opponent Edmundo González cancels agenda in the United States after kidnapping his son-in-law in Venezuela

Edmundo González Urrutiawho claims to have won the elections against Nicolas Madurocanceled the rest of his schedule this Tuesday in Washington after reporting that his son-in-law “was kidnapped” in Caracas “by hooded men,” the opposition reported.

“The rest of the agenda is suspended in Washington”stated his team.

The 75-year-old diplomat exiled in Spain was in USA as part of an international tour that took him to Argentina and Uruguay and that will continue Panama y Dominican Republic looking for support for Friday.

That day, Maduro, proclaimed winner of the July presidential elections by the National Electoral Council (CNE), plans to take the oath of office.

Gonzalez Urrutia He promises that he will do the same, but without saying how.

This Tuesday he told journalists that nine former Latin American presidents “they are going to accompany” upon arrival in Panama.

When asked if they will travel with him to Venezuela answered: “It’s not insured yet.”

“We are going to be very attentive to what happens in Venezuela in the coming days, which will be definitive for democracy”, he added after meeting with a group of Republican senators. He showed them the minutes that, according to the opposition, show that they have won the elections by a large majority.

“Maduro lost the elections; there should be one peaceful transition of power on January 10”Senator Rick Scott, close to President-elect Donald Trump, told reporters.

Your colleague Mario Diaz-Balart It was blunt. “Now there is new leadership in USA” and “all those who try to repress or attack” Venezuelans “have to know that there will be very severe consequences”he stated, referring to Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

Scott stated that Trumphis future head of diplomacy Marco Rubio and the nominee as White House national security advisor, Mike Waltzthey intend to do “everything they can to ensure that the new president-elect is president“, referring to Gonzalez Urrutia.

The opponent also met with the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnsonwithout the content of the conversation having transcended.

It was then that he posted the message on X announcing the kidnapping of his son-in-law.

“Rafael was heading to my grandchildren’s school to drop them off for the start of classes, hooded men dressed in black intercepted him, put him in a gold-colored truck (…), and took him away. At this time he is missing“, he stated in X, and canceled a scheduled meeting with Democratic congressmen.

The embassy of USA in Venezuela reacted to the message by condemning “the attempts to Maduro and its representatives to intimidate the democratic opposition.”