A former Venezuelan diplomat named Edmundo González Urrutia has been selected as the substitute opposition candidate who will square off against President Maduro in the next election.
In the whirlwind world of Venezuelan politics, the former ambassador is now crucial to efforts to oust President Nicolás Maduro as the main opposition faction’s presidential candidate.
“I have never held an elected position. I have never participated in partisan politics of positions of elected office,” he said. “I accepted it with enormous responsibility and as a contribution on my part to the democratization of the country, to the process of trying to seek the understanding, reconciliation, of Venezuelans.”
As I described here, the opposition held a vote last year to decide who would represent them in the election. The winner by a landslide was Maria Machado however the corrupt communist…
