Source: United Press International
“Venezuelan [president-elect] Edmundo Gonzalez said he was forced to accept Nicolas Maduro as the victor in July’s disputed presidential election to get out of the Spanish Embassy in Caracas and escape from the country. Maduro staff bullied him into signing a document recognizing his incumbent opponent had won … as a condition of allowing him to receive asylum in Spain, Gonzalez said late Wednesday in a video posted on X. … July’s election has been widely discredited after the Venezuela National Electoral declared Maduro, who has been in office since 2013, the winner of a third term despite Gonzalez leading by a huge margin in the polls and concerns over a crackdown on opposition figures and voting irregularities.” (09/19/24)