Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González issued a statement Thursday night denying having been pressured by the Spanish government to force him to leave Venezuela for Spain. These alleged coercions were allegedly carried out within the Caracas embassy in collaboration with the Venezuelan executive, a version that was raised during the day by the PP. “I was not forced by the Spanish government or the ambassador,” the note states.
Throughout Thursday, the deputy secretary of the PP, Esteban González Pons, came to describe the Spanish executive as “putschist”, while the leader of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, demanded the resignation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, for his management of the crisis in Venezuela.
González now shows another version of what happened. “The Spanish government is committed to guaranteeing my safety during the journey on board the armed forces plane,” the statement said.
