Hundreds of supporters of the Venezuelan opposition demonstrated this Tuesday in Madrid before the Congress of Deputieswhere the daughter of the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiaexiled in Spainread them a message from himself asking them not to give up.
“My fellow countrymen, do not be discouraged, I will not let you down!” said González Urrutia in the message read by his daughter Carolina to the protesters in the Spanish capital.
At the same time, the Spanish Congress debated a motion to recognize González as the legitimate president of Venezuela, although the government of Pedro Sanchez, toAligned with Europe, it avoided taking a definitive position, calling for greater transparency in the elections.
For his part, the Venezuelan autocrat, Nicolas Madurojoked about the seizure of his plane, a Dassault Falcon 900EX, seized by US authorities in the Dominican Republic on September 2.
During a mandatory broadcast, Maduro He said he “almost” traveled to the United States to attend the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, but that “the plane was stolen from him.” He also accused the Dominican president, Luis Abinader, of being “a thief,” despite the fact that the Dominican government denied any involvement in the operation.
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