The president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, revealed that the extremist opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia held a dinner at the home of Miguel Henrique Otero in Spain to “hammer” businessmen from the European country and continue with his plans to “overthrow the government” of President Nicolás Maduro.
During his participation in the multiplatform program Con Maduro + on Monday night, the president of parliament reported that the former candidate who fled to Spain held a meeting at Otero’s house “violating all the agreements he reached with the Spanish Government,” together with Leopoldo López’s father, reputable businessmen from the European country, and representatives of the political parties VOX and the Popular Party.
Rodríguez said that the intention of that meeting was to “hammer down Spanish businessmen in order to continue their work of overthrowing the legitimate government of Venezuela.”
“We know everything you said, you mentioned: ‘I need to become independent from Maria Corina Machado, because as long as I depend on her resources I will also depend on her cries,” he revealed, adding that the opposition extremists in Spain aim to collect 10 million dollars “which will surely be used for your splendid retirement on the Golden Mile of Salamanca.”
He also revealed that González Urrutia asked him in a letter to look after his assets in the country: “That he asked for the country is completely false; the only request he made was regarding his personal assets, his apartments, his cars, his beach house.”
Knife fight
Rodríguez said that there is a “knife fight” between the extremists to destroy the sector that agrees with González Urrutia’s capitulation.
“There is a knife fight now between Julio Borges and Capriles Radonski to defend Eudoro González, who was obviously the interlocutor. Borges is proposing to expel from Primero Justicia everything that Capriles represents and hand it over to María Corina Machado,” he explained.
González Urrutia has “a compulsion to lie”
“At least two things have been evident since the beginning of July 29: first, Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia’s compulsion to lie, with a cowardly attitude of changing his position and discourse,” said Rodríguez.
He noted that the politicians of the Fourth Republic “made lies their main asset, but in this case I think that things have gotten a little out of hand for Mr. Edmundo González.”
For his part, President Nicolás Maduro reiterated that the former far-right candidate hid in the residence of the Dutch ambassador in Caracas one day after the presidential elections and even the Chancellor of that European nation, Caspar Veldkamp, “insisted that he not leave the country,” but after several weeks “he rang the doorbell of the house next door,” referring to the fact that the residence of the Kingdom of Spain is next to that of the Netherlands.
“All this tells you about the character of a leader, what his morals are, what his ethics are, what his values are (…) What Jorge Rodríguez says is true: that he hid since the early hours of July 29 (…) So he abandoned his people because he hid in an Embassy and when calls were made to defend him, he stayed armed, cowered in the Embassy,” Maduro argued.
Maria Corina called Gonzalez Urrutia a coward
Jorge Rodríguez also revealed new details of the insults and shouts that Edmundo González received from María Corina Machado before fleeing to Spain.
“On Saturday, thinking he was leaving, he called María Corina Machado on the phone and that’s when she found out that he was leaving for Spain. (She) yelled at him, saying ‘you can’t tell me that’ and he told her: the decision has been made and cancelled the call. That’s why he was in such a hurry that night,” he said.
“We do know who pressured him by phone, who shouted at him on September 6 and told him he was a coward, we know who did it. We have material that certifies that the pressure did not come precisely from the Bolivarian Government,” declared the head of Parliament.
Finally, the Venezuelan head of state mentioned that despite the nearly a thousand unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela and its government, he has not been intimidated by pressure and that if there is any type of coercion, it is from imperialism against him.
“He (Edmundo González) must acknowledge his moral baseness, his cowardice. It was not coercion, it was cowardice,” he emphasized.
Maduro also highlighted the contradictions of far-right leaders by commenting that González Urrutia issued a statement denying coercion by the Kingdom of Spain on the same day that María Corina Machado tried to spread that message through social media.
