The standard bearer of the majority opposition VenezuelaEdmundo González Urrutia, exiled in Spaincelebrated this Wednesday the appointment of Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State of the United States, in Donald Trump’s next term, and sees it as “a great ally” to recover democracy in Venezuela.
“Marco Rubio knows first-hand the problems that afflict Venezuela and we are sure that he will be a great ally in our fight to recover freedom and democracy in our country,” González Urrutia said on social networks during his visit to Brussels to thank to the EU for its support in the same cause.
The Venezuelan politician and former diplomat assured that the Venezuelan opposition is “pleased with the appointment, for the first time in the history of the United States, of a Hispanic as Secretary of State.”
In the same line Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado also expressed herself from Caracas.who considered that the confirmation of Rubio at the head of US diplomacy, under the mandate of Trump, who will take office as President of the Government next January, is “excellent news for all of Latin America.”
Born in Miami in 1971 and considered a ‘hawk’ in foreign policyRubio is a supporter of a tough line against China and Iran, and of sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The Venezuelan opposition denounces fraud in the official result of the presidential elections of last July 18, rejected by the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, which assures that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won at the polls current president Nicolas Maduro.