Premonitory phrase from Sánchez who anticipated the exile of Edmundo Rodríguez

He expressed it yesterday, Saturday, before the Federal Committee of the PSOE. This Sunday, it takes on its full meaning due to its premonitory character. Edmundo González is “A hero that Spain will not abandon”said the President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, at a point in his speech, in which he defended the integrity of activists, journalists or political leaders “wherever they are”, whether in Russia, Palestine or Venezuela. His words provoked applause from the members of the committee, among whom was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.

A few hours later, early Sunday morning, it was announced that the Venezuelan opposition leader had left Caracas on a Spanish Air Force plane. “Edmundo González took off from Caracas to Spain on a Spanish Air Force plane. The Spanish government has put in place the diplomatic and material means necessary for its transfer“carried out at his request,” said the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement published on its website and reported by ABC early this morning.

The support given to Rodríguez’s executive candidate contrasts with the silence maintained in its ranks on his evident victory in the elections that Nicolás Maduro denied him or on his recognition as elected president. Thus, Spain maintains the same position that it had already formalized in mid-August in the common position of the European Union, the United States and other countries to demand that the Maduro regime publish the results of the elections.