Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia He assured this Friday in an interview with the agency Reuters who took refuge in the Spanish embassy in Venezuela after being warned that Nicolas Maduro’s security forces were going to look for him.
“A security official who worked with me took me aside to tell me that he had received information from security agencies that they came for meand that the most prudent thing was to withdraw,” González Urrutia said in the interview.
Thus, the Venezuelan opponent, who arrived in Spain on September 8 after obtaining the country’s political asylumdefends that he “had to be free to be able to do what I do, to transmit to the world what is happening in Venezuela.”
Last Wednesday, Edmundo González shared a video on his social networks in which he claims that the Venezuelan government forced him to sign “under duress” a document in which he validates Maduro’s controversial victory.
A few hours later, Maduro’s executive brought to light the image in which González Urrutia and the Spanish ambassador are seen, alongside Maduro’s number two, his vice president Delcy Rodríguez and the president of the National Assembly. This is the safe conduct, denounces Edmundo González, which signed against his will and this cannot in any way be considered valid.
On Thursday, the Venezuelan opposition leader issued a statement in which he assured that, despite the PP’s accusations that the Spanish government had cooperated in the “coup in Venezuela”, he assured that neither the Sánchez executive nor the Spanish ambassador had participated in this coercion.
“I was not forced neither by the Spanish government nor by the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela, Ramón Santos. The diplomatic efforts made had the sole aim of facilitating my departure from the country, without putting pressure on myself” he assured.
