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By: Roberto Morejón

An atmosphere of tension was created around the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro on January 10th, thanks to the actions of the Venezuelan far right, governments of the same tendency in Latin America, the outgoing US administration and the major Western media.

The frenetic campaign was directed against the decision of the National Electoral Council and the Supreme Court of Justice regarding the results of the vote of last July 28, in favor of Maduro.

There is no legal debate in the South American country about the nature or legality of Maduro's inauguration.

The rest is part of a great fog woven by extremists, with the opposition leader María Corina Machado at the forefront.

The latter, the lady with the iron hand, manages the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who, as part of the scheme, declares himself the winner of the elections.

Machado, who claims to be a friend of Argentina's ultra-right president, Javier Milei, confessed her closeness and frequent contacts with the exponents of the outgoing U.S. administration.

The architect of the alternative force in the streets and with the frustrated ambition of dividing the Venezuelan armed forces, she is behind the violent protests after the last election day.

Now she and her deputy, González Urrutia, have launched an international campaign with trips by the latter, without revealing who paid for the logistics, although the well-informed know the origin.

The embellished "president-elect" González Urrutia is an older version of Juan Guaidó, the former deputy who became "first president" years ago when he "took the oath" in a public square in Caracas and not in the National Assembly.

González Urrutia is under arrest by the Venezuelan judiciary for complicity in acts of violence, usurpation of functions and disrespect for state institutions, among other charges.

The accompanying court of Miley, Biden, Lacalle Pou and others is only trying to revive the disintegrated Lima Group, which accompanied the plans and sanctions of the United States against Venezuela.

Not by chance, President Maduro accused the outgoing U.S. administration of financing actions against the South American country, in addition to reports of arrests of foreign mercenaries involved in destabilization plans.

And the head of state opportunely asked himself: "What are they offering Venezuela, to recolonize it, to govern it, or to run it through a puppet?