Q COSTA RICA — Opposition leader and the person many around the world consider the rightful President of Venezuela, Edmundo González, arrived in Costa Rica from Guatemala on Wednesday and will today, Thursday, meet with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves at Casa Presidencial.
Also present at the meeting will be Arnoldo André, Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister, who on Wednesday said that González will, in Costa Rica, “inform the president and give him details of the situation in Venezuela, of the victory he obtained by more than 7 million votes on July 28, 2024, and of the electoral fraud committed by the Nicolás Maduro regime by fraudulently swearing himself in as president.”
“The Government of Costa Rica strongly rejects the illegitimate act of taking office through which Nicolás Maduro intends to perpetuate himself in power based on persecution, the improper use of electoral and judicial means, and state terror against his people, especially against opposition leaders,” the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry said in a statement last Friday.
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On the same day as the elections in Venezuela, Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves said that the process had been fraudulent.
Last August, Costa Rica, the host country of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), offered political asylum to Edmundo González and opposition leader María Corina Machado, who were grateful for the gesture but did not accept the asylum.
Since 2020, Costa Rica has suspended diplomatic relations with Venezuela by closing the embassy and withdrawing its staff. And in 2019, Costa Rica rejected Maduro’s victory in the presidential elections that year and recognized Juan Guaidó.
Costa Rica considers Maduro’s reelection illegitimate, accusing him of seeking to perpetuate himself in power based on “persecution, improper use of electoral and judicial means, as well as state terror.”
Along these lines, it considers that González is the only person with the legitimacy to assume the Presidency of Venezuela.
Last Wednesday, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly (Congress) approved a motion in support of González, recognizing him as the “legitimate president” of Venezuela. The only person voting against this motion was legislator Rocío Alfaro of the Frente Amplio party.
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