DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Venezuelan presidential contender Edmundo Gonzalez arrived to the Dominican Republic at 10pm on Wednesday, 8 January 2025 on the fifth stop of his Americas tour. Gonzalez has the 28 July election rolls that indicate that he won with a landside and that he, not Nicolas Maduro, is the President-elect who should be sworn in on 10 January. The Maduro government has made it clear that it will not allow Gonzalez to enter the country.

Gonzalez flew in from Panama where he had met with Panama President Jose Raul Mulino who said that receiving Gonzalez Urrutia was not a symbolic act, but rather a commitment..Gonzalez is on a tour of the Americas and has been received by President Javier Milei in Argentina, Luis LaCalle in Uruguay, Joe Biden in the United States, and then Jose Raul Mulino in Panama.

Gonzalez had announced when in the United States that he was cutting...