Photos at the Spanish embassy, a letter signed by the opposition leader and accusations of coercion by the opposition leader towards the Venezuelan government. The tension between Edmundo González and the executive of Nicolas Maduro grows between mutual accusations.
Edmundo González Urrutia's lawyer, José Vicente Haro, appeared on television this Wednesday, denying that his client had recognized, in a signed letter, the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Venezuela that validated the proclamation of Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela by the country's National Electoral Council.
After this statement, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, appeared before the media, who showed the letter signed by himself as the recipient of the document signed by Edmundo González addressed to his attention in which he asks for help to conclude the agreement to be welcomed in Spain, for which he needed safe passage from the Venezuelan government, which in turn had to authorize a plane of the Spanish Armed Forces to land in a restricted area of the Caracas airport.
Rodriguez also showed photos taken inside the Spanish diplomatic offices where Gonzalez Urrutia met with him and the vice president, Delcy Rodriguez.
Meanwhile, opposition leader Edmundo González has released his own video in which he accuses Venezuela of signing the letter under “duress.”
In a video posted on his social networks, González Urrutia, exiled since September 8 in Spain where he is requesting political asylum, responded to the presentation by the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, of the letter in which the opponent declared that he respected the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of his country to validate the victory of Nicolas Maduro in the elections of July 28.
The opponent explains that, while he was staying at the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, he was presented with a document that he had to sign to obtain a safe conduct that would allow him to leave Venezuela for exile.
In his message, he recounts the moment he signed the document, “very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure” carried out, he says, by the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly himself and the country's vice president, Delcy Rodríguez.
“In other words, either I signed or I suffered the consequences. There were very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure, in those moments I considered that I could be more useful free than locked up and unable to carry out the tasks entrusted to me by the sovereign,” he reflected.
“A document produced under duress is tainted with absolute nullity due to a serious lack of consent,” he added.
González Urrutia criticized the fact that the Maduro government “always resorts to dirty games, blackmail and manipulation,” and promised that it would “never betray” its supporters and that it would not “remain silent.”
“What they should disclose are the minutes of the review, the truth is what it is and it is in the minutes that you intend to hide. “They are not going to silence a country that has already spoken,” he said.