Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the arrest of seven foreigners, including two Americans, accused of being 'mercenaries' plotting 'terrorist acts' to prevent his planned inauguration on Friday. Maduro stated that the Americans, two Colombian 'hitmen', and three 'mercenaries' from the war in Ukraine were involved in the plot. This announcement comes amidst US support for exiled Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have won a July election by a landslide.
SWEARING-IN MARCH. Venezuela n President Nicolás Maduro speaks during a swearing-in march for combatant forces in Caracas on Wednesday, Manila time. On Jan. 10 ,Maduro is to be sworn in for a third six-year term, after swatting aside allegations he stole a July election from now-exiled opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia , who claims to have won in a landslide.
The announcement of Americans being detained came just hours after President Joe Biden welcomed exiled Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia in the United States. The United States and several of Venezuela’s democratic neighbors believe Gonzalez Urrutia won a July presidential election by a landslide and that official results were falsified.
They face an uphill battle. The 62-year-old Maduro and his political mentor Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, have between them ruled Venezuela for the last quarter century.
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