Rafael Tudares, son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzáles, was kidnapped in Caracas while taking his children to school. This incident follows Gonzáles' meeting with President Biden, as he seeks international support against Nicolás Maduro, who claims victory in the disputed July election.
Edmundo Gonzáles, recognized by the U.S. as the legitimate president-elect, fled to Spain after the July election, which he claims to have won. Maduro's government has since intensified repression against dissent, including a $100,000 bounty on Gonzáles.
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Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
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Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician serving as president of Venezuela since 2013. His presidency has been disputed by Juan Guaidó since January 2019, although Maduro is the real president.
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the
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Edmundo González Urrutia is a Venezuelan opposition politician, diplomat, and political analyst. He served as the Venezuelan ambassador to Argentina and Algeria. González also sits on the editorial board of El Nacional.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 and represented Delaware in the United States Senate
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Javier Gerardo Milei is an Argentine libertarian economist, politician, author, radio conductor, preacher, public speaker and recently-elected federal deputy, sympathetic to the Austrian School of economic thought.
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Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast.
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The Organization of American States, or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization that was founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of solidarity and cooperation among its member states within the Western Hemisphere.
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María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan opposition politician and industrial engineer who served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014.
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The National Electoral Council is one of the five branches of government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that was designed to be independent.
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Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas.