MIAMI (WSVN) - Fabiana Rosales, the first lady of Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó, was welcomed by Miami-Dade County’s mayor.
After meeting with the President of the United States on Wednesday and First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday, Rosales continued her week by meeting with South Florida leaders on Friday morning.
Rosales met with Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Giménez at the Stephen P. Clark Center where she was given the key to the county.
Gimenez wanted to express the message to Rosales and her husband that Miami-Dade County supports them.
Rosales said the show of support comes as she and her husband continue fighting for their people.
“Nothing will hold us back,” she said through a translator, adding that the humanitarian crisis her county is facing only motivates them to push on.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime has blocked efforts to move aid into the beleaguered country.
In a video statement posted Friday, Guaidó said this situation will change. He assured the people of Venezuela that aid will be coming but stopped short of revealing how.
U.S. government officials said they are ready to help.
“We hope it works, and assuming that it does, which we do, the United States would be happy to give some of our aid into this method of reaching the Venezuelan people,” said Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela.
The U.S. recognizes Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.
“We’re with you 100 percent,” President Trump told Rosales on Wednesday.
Rosales had a message to say at the ceremony as the people in Venezuela continue to suffer.
“I know that the result of Venezuela that we are going to see very soon, it will become an example, so that the nations of the world never go through what Venezuela is going through now,” she said.
Rosales is hosting a supply drive for the people of Venezuela at Oscar’s Moving and Storage, located at 11421 NW 107th St., Suite 13, in Northwest Miami-Dade, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.
“What’s really needed in Venezuela now is to unite the world, just one cause, humanitarianism. I usually talk about humanitarianism because I feel like in the world there has been a loss of values,” she said.
Rosales met with City of Miami Mayor of Miami Francis Suarez, Friday afternoon, to receive the key to the city.
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