Venezuelan opposition leader meets with Biden ahead of Maduro protests this week

06 Jan 2025, 22:23 · UPI

Jan. 6 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden on Monday met with Venezuela's opposition leader ahead of this week's inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro's contested third term, according to multiple reports.

Speaking briefly at the White House, Venezuelan Democratic Unitary party leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia described his meeting with the outgoing U.S. president as "long, cordial and fruitful," The Miami Herald reported.