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This article was written by the editors and appeared in 20Minutos. María Corina Machado agradece a Santiago Abascal su apoyo “en las horas más oscuras”.
Featuring Hermann Tertsch, Distinguished Fellow (Honorary), Gold Institute for International Strategy
In brief: from her party’s headquarters in Caracas on Thursday, with Vox MEPs Hermann Tertsch and Jorge Martín Frías at her side, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado spoke by video call with Vox leader Santiago Abascal and thanked him for standing by her in her hardest months. The passages on Hermann Tertsch follow, translated from the Spanish.
The arrival of MEPs Jorge Martín Frías, director of the Vox think tank Disenso, and Hermann Tertsch, who is also vice president of the Patriots for Europe group, took place on Wednesday. Opposition figure Orlando Avendaño, who traveled with them, posted a photo with the MEPs on his social media on their arrival at the temporary terminal at Maiquetía, set up after the damage Venezuela’s main airport suffered in the two earthquakes.
Alongside the photo, Avendaño added: “Today marks the end of almost 9 years of exile. Back home, back in my homeland, with great friends.” For his part, Tertsch posted on his X account that he was “in Caracas, supporting Venezuela’s transition to democracy, freedom and prosperity.”
“I want to express my enormous satisfaction at being in Venezuela and seeing that this is already a different country. It is an absolutely irreversible transition process that no one will be able to stop, and that will lead us to presidential elections and a democracy,” Hermann Tertsch said.
In a November 2023 interview, the Venezuelan opposition leader said she was “a friend of Santiago Abascal” and that she “loved Hermann Tertsch very much.” During her visit to Madrid last April, she met Abascal for an hour at the headquarters of the Disenso Foundation, and also met “almost all the members of the national leadership of Vox.”
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Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington, D.C. foreign policy and defense think tank.
