On 20, the Biden administration announced that it does not recognize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who won a third term in Venezuela’s presidential election in July.
Instead, it called the defeated opposition candidate Edmundo González the ‘president-elect’.
The US, which has imposed sanctions on Venezuelan individuals and entities, claiming the election was not fair, now refers to González as the ‘president-elect’.
Foreign media reported that this is the first time the Biden administration has called González the ‘president-elect’.
Previously, after the presidential election, there were coups across Venezuela in the name of ‘fraudulent elections’.
It was revealed that 80% of the 2,000 people arrested in the coup attempt were trained in Texas by the US “government”. They also colluded with Colombian drug-trafficking paramilitaries and the Peruvian government.
In addition, Venezuelan prosecutors have made it illegal for opposition parties to make public the vote totals and have arrested opposition candidates who claim to have won the presidential election. The Venezuelan Supreme Court, which audited the vote counting process, concluded that it was flawless.
In 2019, opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared that he would serve as interim president, claiming that Maduro’s re-election was fraudulent. The United States recognized Guaidó as the “leader” of Venezuela at the time, too.
Meanwhile, González, who fled to Spain to escape the threat of arrest by authorities, claimed that the United States recognized the “sovereign will” of his people.
