For Maria Corina MachadoTHE arrival of Edmundo González Urrutia in Spain It was essential to preserve his life. The leader of the Venezuelan opposition assures that Gonzalez’s life “was in danger” because of the “increasing threats” or “summonses” from the courts, which “demonstrate that the regime has neither scruples nor limits in its obsession with silencing him.”
“Edmundo will fight from the outside with our diaspora and I will continue to do it here“with you,” says Maria Corina Machado, who, like the rest of the opponents, is in danger by remaining in Venezuela. Fernando Arancondirector of El Orden Mundial, believes that the Maduro regime does not have “many problems putting pressure on opposition leaders.”
Six senior opposition figures remain housed in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, where Venezuelan security forces have deployed patrols to surround it. Since the elections, More than 2,000 Venezuelans have been arrestedwhich Maduro promised to take to two maximum security prisons.
Despite the repression, Machado is confident that González Urrutia will eventually be sworn in as Venezuela’s president-elect, even if other opponents who left the country were never able to return.Politically, it is a victory for Madurowho manages to expel another opponent from the country,” says Arancón, a victory he has already achieved with Leopoldo López, Antonio Ledezma or Juan Guaidó.
