Ecuadorian-born US Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell said the region needs to pressure Mexico to help Nicolás Maduro get out of the government in Venezuela and that the administration of US President Joe Biden was key. for the elections in that country and continues to put pressure.
The Democratic politician, who won the Florida primaries for a Senate seat on Tuesday, said Mexico should help so that Edmundo González Urrutia, considered by the opposition and several governments to be the winner of the elections last July, can take office.
“We have to have a coalition of all our allies in Latin America, including Mexico. We must put pressure on Mexico to be part of this coalition to give Maduro a way out. He has to hand over power“, he emphasized.
“If I am in the Senate, this will be my focus. We will be able to exert diplomatic pressure so that Maduro can leave and hand over power to Edmundo, who is the president who has been elected“, he stressed.
Mucarsel-Powell said her goal is to reach the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee “to be the voice of Latin America and Central America in Washington DC.”
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The Democratic politician said that the President Biden’s administration was crucial to the elections in Venezuela held on July 28 and she is certain that any eventual government of Vice President Kamala Harris, who made her candidacy official on Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, will continue on that path.
“The reason why (opposition leader) María Corina Machado and Edmundo González were able to win an election in Venezuela was because of the work of this administration,” he emphasized.
“Our government here is doing everything possible to put pressure on Maduro to leave power and hand over power to Edmundo González, who is the person who won that election. election in Venezuela“, he emphasized.
The Democratic candidate for the Senate from Florida for the elections on November 5 criticized the lack of someone in that Chamber who currently represents these interests of Latin America.
He questioned the fact that his political rival, Republican Senator Rick Scott, who is seeking re-election, talks about these issues “but does nothing.”
He recalled that the Republican, who was governor of Florida between 2011 and 2019, “did not support” immigration relief, Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Venezuelans.
Mucarsel-Powell noted that during her tenure as a congresswoman, between 2019 and 2021, led “a bill to bring humanitarian assistance to Venezuela and other countries in Latin America during the crises in 2018 and 2019.”
The 53-year-old Ecuadorian politician represented during that period a district in South Florida with a large Cuban population, which by then stretched from the western suburbs of Miami to the Florida Keys.
The Democrat was the first non-Cuban Latin American person in the United States Congress and said she now hopes to be the first female senator from that region in Washington.
