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Maduro has violated the constitution and the sovereign will of the Venezuelans … He has executed a coup d’etat and crowned himself dictator. The people aren’t with him and no government considered democratic is with him – only the dictators of Cuba, [the Democratic Republic of the] Congo and Nicaragua,
said González, a 75-year-old retired diplomat
We are immortal. We are invincible. We are indestructible,
Maduro proclaimedWhen they tried to impose him, very thieving, very corrupt, very corrupt, very bandit, very fake, and they thought that by all coming down on Venezuela, the people of Venezuela were going to cower."
Maduro also recalled the failed attempts to impose opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president over the past years and said
We are doing what the cause of freedom requires, no more and no less,
Milei told González Urrutia as they shook hands inside government houseThey didn't understand. Today they don't understand. They continue to underestimate the Venezuelan people's capacity for resistance and dignity,
he said, attacking "foreign imperialism."It would be about oil, it would be about migration. And it would, I think, in the case of a Trump administration, be much less about democracy and human rights,
Gunson told AFP
I have not been made president by the government of the United States, nor by the pro-imperialist governments of Latin America,
he said after being draped with a sash in the red, yellow and blue of Venezuela’s flag
In the end, it feels as if the soup got cold,
college professor Nelson Perez saidYou see people, and they look like they have a hangover,
bricklayer Luis Carlos Moreno, 55, said of the mood among those who had stayed away from the inauguration ceremonyToday, Maduro didn’t put the sash on his chest. He put a shackle on his ankle, which will tighten every day,
she saidThe power given to me was not granted by a foreign government, a foreign president, or a gringo government,
Maduro said at the event, which was attended by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Cuba’s Miguel Diaz-Canel
No one in this world can impose a president in Venezuela,
he added as per CNNWe’ve achieved what we knew we would achieve,
Maduro said during his first speech after being sworn in, ... according to a CNN reportToday, I will sign the decree to create a broad national commission for drafting the constitutional reform project, aiming for a process of democratization and defining Venezuela's new society and economy,
Maduro said
I swear it on history, I swear it on my life, and I will fulfill it,
said Maduro, who then received the presidential sash and the Order of the Liberators, symbols of presidential authority in VenezuelaI want you to know how important it is also for the safety of the American people."
On the other hand, Machado told Fox News Digital
Maduro has nobody supporting him but some factions inside the armed forces, and he's counting on those factions to support him and make him president, ... There are not two sides here. There is a huge Venezuelan side that is democratic, and they are looking and trying to get back democracy. And there is a tiny group that is in power that is desperately fighting to keep their privileges and to keep their position in power."
Ray explained, addingThese are very few fractions of Venezuelans that were introduced inside those migration processes designed by the regime… but you don't need too many to destabilize, create chaos, to install organized crime processes inside the U.S.,
said RayMigration, weaponized with elements of the Tren de Aragua, will serve as leverage to seek the easing of economic sanctions and to gain legitimacy from the United States,
he saidWe also are desperate to solve the migration problem in our region,
she said