Caracas Vows To Arrest Opposition's Gonzalez Urrutia If 'Sets Foot' In Venezuela

Edmundo González Urrutiadiplomat

We want to make it clear to you that Panama is with you and with the legitimacy you represent,

Mulino told González

Patricia Bullrichsecurity Minister

Argentina will not send players who could be kidnapped. CONMEBOL will have to reconsider or they will need to change the venue,

stated Bullrich in comments to a Venezuelan media outlet

Michael Shifterpolitical analyst

The key is the armed forces, ... These regimes are very unpredictable and can fall any moment even if they appear quite strong. If it collapses, it will collapse internally.”

Shifter said,

Vladimir Villegasmember of the Chamber of Deputies of Venezuela

He was always very disciplined,

said Vladimir Villegas, who has known Maduro since high school and served as his deputy foreign minister until breaking with Chávez

Gustavo Petropresident

These, and other events, prevent my personal attendance" of Friday's investiture ceremony

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, historically a leftist ally of Maduro, on Wednesday criticized the reported detentions of Marquez and Correa, saying

I wouldn't miss that day for anything,

she said in a virtual press conference

At what point did being related to Edmundo González Urrutia become a crime

his daughter, Mariana González de Tudares, said in a statement that suggested the government was behind her husband’s disappearance

I have never participated in partisan politics of positions of elected office,

he told The Associated Press in May

There is tension. As soon as night falls, the city is like a ghost town,

Caracas resident Mari Jimenez said

We condemn the attempts by Maduro and his representatives to intimidate the democratic opposition in Venezuela,

the department said

Both leaders agreed there is nothing more essential to the success of democracy than respecting the will of the people, as expressed through a transparent and accountable electoral process, and that Gonzalez Urrutia’s campaign victory should be honored through a peaceful transfer back to democratic rule,

it said

Nicolás Maduropresident

I am sure that in the next few hours they will confess,

Maduro said in a broadcast on state television, before declaring a mass deployment of police and military across the country

My mom is 84 years old, she's sick with chronic health problems ... Maduro and company, there is no limit to your evil. Cowards."

she posted on X

We demand the immediate release of Rafael Tudares and all political prisoners, who are hostages of a regime that knows it is rejected by the vast majority of Venezuelans who spoke with the force of the vote (on July 28),

the coalition said in the statement

The Maduro regime does not notify the U.S. government of the detention of U.S. citizens, and the U.S. government is not granted access to those citizens,

a State Department spokesperson said

To come in and take the same failed approach seems misguided,

said Brian Fonseca, a former Pentagon expert on Latin America who heads a national security think tank at Florida International University

It’s like mourning someone in life,

said Margarita Estrella, his ex-wife and mother of three of his children, the youngest of whom just turned 18.

This morning my son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped,

Gonzálezposted on X on Tuesday

The only negotiation between Trump and Maduro must be the liberation of Venezuela,

warned Isaias Medina III, a former Venezuelan diplomat on the United Nations Security Council and Harvard fellow

Maduro assuming another term on Friday is a blatant violation of the votes of the Venezuelan people. The published tally sheets back that up,

Jason Marczak, the vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, told Fox News Digital