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Caracas, 3 May (EFE).- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, speaking with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, stressed the “importance” of international support to “confront” Nicolás’ government. Maduro, the anti-Chavista leader reported this Tuesday.
The former MP expressed that Venezuelans resist “a dictatorship” and fight “for free and fair elections”, which he believes “supporting the free world is the key to achieving them”, as stated in a message published on his Twitter account is called .
This Monday, on the same social network, Blinken said he spoke to Guaidó to reiterate the “United States support for the Venezuelan people in their quest to restore freedom, democracy and prosperity to their country.”
“We remain committed to the success of Venezuela-led negotiations as the best way forward for a peaceful return to democracy,” the senior US official added.
The US has recognized Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president since 2019, when the then President of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) spoke out as such at a demonstration in Caracas.
In contact with Guaidó, Blinken reiterated “the United States’ commitment to the talks between the Maduro regime and the Unified Platform as the best way to return to democracy and resolve the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela,” the spokesman for Venezuela said in a statement Department of State, Ned Price.
The Venezuelan government and opposition agreed on a negotiating table in Mexico in August 2021, but this was suspended in October by the ruling party as a sign of protest against the extradition to the United States of Colombian businessman Álex Saab, identified as a suspected figurehead of Maduro. .
The talks between Blinken and the Venezuelan opponent took place on the same day that Washington ruled out inviting the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the June Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles (California) because it believes that ” they don’t respect democracy.
At the moment, Washington has not confirmed whether it will invite Guaidó to next month’s summit, the second summit organized by the United States after the original one in Miami in 1994, whose main goal is to draft a regional migration pact. EFE
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