Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, recognized by the US as the winner of last year's presidential election, began a tour of Latin America just days before President Nicolás Maduro's planned third-term inauguration, despite international condemnation.
Police tape blocks off the crime scene outside a church where a man shot dead four people, including three of his children, before turning the gun on himself, February 28, 2022 in Sacramento, California. A father shot dead three of his own children on February 28 before turning the gun on himself in a US church, police said. A fifth person also died in the shooting in Sacramento, California, though it was not clear if that person was related to what police said was a domestic incident.
Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, some waving their homeland's red, blue and yellow flag, filled the Plaza de Mayo outside Argentina's presidential palace in Buenos Aires. They were waiting for González to emerge from a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei, a staunch supporter of the Venezuelan opposition.following the July 28 presidential election, in which Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council, which is stacked with governing party loyalists.
Upon arrival to the Argentine capital, where he twice served as Venezuela’s ambassador more than two decades ago, González posted on social media a short video message expressing solidarity with those imprisoned in Venezuela as part of a crackdown by Maduro.tally sheets
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