Spanish officials confirmed that he arrived in Spain on Sunday, where he plans to apply for political asylum. The United States and many Latin American countries consider 75-year-old E. González to be the real winner of the July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela. Venezuela’s Electoral Council and Supreme Court declared incumbent President Nicolas Maduro the winner and announced that he won 51% of the vote. The opposition dismissed it as a falsification of the election results and claimed that there had been fraud and manipulation of the results during the counting of votes. Venezuela’s Electoral Council also did not release the breakdown of votes by precinct, claiming that a massive cyber attack prevented it. However, no evidence that such an attack took place was made public either. The opposition claimed that, according to the information at its disposal, E. González was ahead of N. Maduro by 30 percentage points.
N. Maduro announced that the opposition was preparing a coup d’état and began repression against its activists and leaders. At least 27 people have lost their lives in protests since the elections. Some are said to have been killed by motorcycle gangs linked to the government Collectives members. About 200 people were injured, and about 2,400 opposition supporters were detained.
E. González has been hiding from the authorities for the last month, as the courts have repeatedly issued subpoenas addressed to him with an order to appear for trials. Last week, a court in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, which mainly hears cases related to terrorism, granted the prosecutor’s request to issue a warrant for E. Gonzalez’s arrest. The prosecutor’s office accused E. González of “serious crimes”, including usurpation of power and connections with financial supporters of “terrorists”.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that E. González arrived on Sunday Torrejón de Ardoz at a military base near Madrid. On the other hand, the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcia Rodríguez, posted Instagram said that the Venezuelan authorities allowed E. González to leave the country freely in order to restore “political peace”.
2024-09-11 01:44:14