Edmundo González revealed that María Corina Machado did not know about his plan to go into exile in Spain

Edmundo González Urrutia told Reuters news agency details of his departure from Venezuela to exile in Spain, in his first interview since leaving his country. He revealed that opposition leader María Corina Machado did not know about his plans.

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“She didn’t know, she didn’t know. I told her practically the day before I decided to go to the Spanish Embassy.“, said Edmundo González, presidential candidate who, according to minutes revealed by the opposition, won the elections of July 28, 2024 in Venezuela.

Regarding the letter he was asked to sign to allow him to leave Venezuela, in which he supposedly accepted the victory of the current president, Nicolás Maduro, Edmundo González assured that the text was reached in multiple meetings that took place over a period of two days.

“That text went back and forth, we made some observations. They returned them with others. In short, it was almost 48 very tense hours, very tense. That’s why I talk about coercion, because it was not a situation in which you freely signed a document,” said González, noting that “it was two days, two days of several meetings.”

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Guarantee for Edmundo González’s family

According to Edmundo González, the text includes a guarantee that his family will not be touched.

“They are currently in Venezuela, they are a family with two children. and that I I trustand I conveyed this to him in conversations with the vice president, that there was no risk for them“, said González, who also pointed out that “this is a document of guarantees” that he signed.

Finally, he said that the architect of his meeting with Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and the President of the Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, was the former President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and that the Spanish ambassador in Caracas offered his residence, but did not participate in the negotiations.

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