A senior U.S. administration official has told the Associated Press that the Venezuelan opposition leader who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday. The meeting comes as part of a tour of the Americas of Edmundo González, a retired diplomat who represented Venezuela’s main opposition coalition in the July presidential election. Maduro has already received an invitation from the National Assembly to be sworn in for a third term Friday, more than five months after the National Electoral Council, stacked with ruling-party loyalists, declared him winner of the July 28 election.
