Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that Edmundo González Urrutia had been “desperate” to flee Venezuela since July 29, due to alleged blackmail and coercion by opposition leader María Corina Machado.
The Minister of the Interior and First Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, said on the night of Wednesday, September 18, that the departure of Edmundo González Urrutia from the country was the result of a negotiation at the request of the opposition leader himself. According to Cabello, González asked government officials to appear at the Spanish embassy where he was taking refuge.
These statements were offered in his weekly program With The Hammer Givingin which he stated that, after having broken an agreement, the Venezuelan government decided to reveal the document signed by Edmundo González Urrutia so that he could leave Venezuela for Spain.
“It was a negotiation and that man was desperate to leave because the elections were on the 28th and on the 29th he was already in the Dutch embassy,” said the first vice president of the PSUV.
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Diosdado Cabello said that after the attacks and after breaking an agreement, the Venezuelan government decided to reveal the document signed by Edmundo González so that he could leave Venezuela for Spain.
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According to Cabello, it was the opposition itself, led by María Corina Machado, who leaked the document in which the former candidate recognized the election results that proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as president. She also commented that the opposition “made a fool of himself” by saying that the signing of the letter in which he recognized the Supreme Court’s ruling on the elections was “under duress.”
“The first thing that happened with that letter is that they said they were not negotiating with us. But how did it get to Spain? And it arrived on a military plane. They always try to lie and they don’t accept their role. We accept the truth and we can see anyone’s face. The one who lies is trying to make sure that the lie is not forgotten,” Cabello said.
He also announced a march by the ruling party for September 28, the same day that the opposition called for a mobilization to defend the vote and in support of González Urrutia’s victory.
“Chavismo will also take to the streets across the country to defend peace, because if there’s one thing we like, it’s the streets,” Cabello said while reading a post that María Corina Machado made on her X account.
#ItsNews 🇻🇪 Diosdado Cabello, the regime’s minister, announced a march on the same day that Venezuelans will take to the streets to defend their vote.
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On the other hand, the Chavista leader highlighted the growing divisions within the opposition. He pointed out that figures such as María Corina Machado, Leopoldo López, Julio Borges, Antonio Ledezma, and Carolina González, daughter of Edmundo González Urrutia, have clashed over control of González’s agenda and meetings in Spain.
In his opinion, these internal tensions have caught the attention of the United States government, which in its recent statement on the call between Antony Blinken and Nicolás Maduro did not mention González as “president-elect.”
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