Amidst the tensions inside and outside Venezuela, the debate continues regarding the departure of Edmundo González. In this sense, the exiled politician Julio Borges has made some statements on Colombian television in which he refers to the role played by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Borges explained that he was to be head of the delegation in a negotiation in the Dominican Republic for the last presidential elections, where the mediator was Zapatero, alongside Jorge Rodríguez for the Maduro government and Delcy Rodríguez. And he clarified that after refusing to sign The deal sparked a chase. Its rejection led to five arrest warrants, the loss of his home and the murder of his right-hand man. “I am exiled from Venezuela by Rodriguez Zapatero”, condemned.
In addition, he clarified that his entourage also suffered persecution, lost their property and had to leave Venezuela. “And that, in my case, is not only called Nicolás Maduro, but Zapatero.”
Borges emphasizes that it is the same mechanism that they addressed Edmundo González. “Once again, the bad cop comes to Edmundo González, Jorge Rodríguez threatens him and Zapatero’s role is to try to relieve Maduro by taking González, but once again, it is a very very perverse piece“And he notes that the current Spanish government has a lot to explain about this process and the entry of the Rodriguez family into the embassy.
Rodriguez Zapatero has always been a representative of Maduro’s interests. Between him and Maduro, they put a gun to the president-elect’s head @EdmundoGU to exile him.
The important thing is that the internal and external pressure against the dictatorship continues… pic.twitter.com/eoRAwjdhXS
– Julio Borges (@JulioBorges) September 21, 2024
For the Venezuelan politician, a clarification is urgent, because he emphasizes that all this did not happen in full transparency and in broad daylight, publicly, but at night, hidden, where they were recorded and forced to sign a document. And in which finally, “González was surreptitiously taken to Spain,” he indicates.
“East a very dark film. But ultimately, it indicates a level of complicity and a level of management by Zapatero of Maduro’s interests that is truly shameful,” he said.
