Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez left the country through the Spanish embassy

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*Arrest warrant issued after three unfulfilled citations *One day after the presidential elections Edmundo Gonzalez sought asylum in embassies *Edmundo Gonzalez face 6 criminal charges and left without answering for any of them *Edmundo Gonzalez’s lawyer insisted that the former candidate would not leave the country *Spanish media assured that people close to Edmundo Gonzalez not know of his departure *Edmundo Gonzalez attempts with his departure to disassociate himself from the conflicts in the country

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00:00After being the subject of a warning for failing to comply with the sanctions of citizen power,

00:05former President Yucandi of the extreme right wing of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia,

00:09left the country for Spain, with details on special envoy in Caracas, Nacho Lemus.

00:16Edmundo González left Venezuela through the Spanish embassy in Caracas. He left without

00:22giving answers in the case that investigates the link between the disregard of the electoral results

00:27and the fascist actions that killed 25 people after the elections of last July 20.

00:40The guy left first because he knows he did not win. That is the main reason.

00:46He knows he did not win. Second, he knows that those people who were surrounding him

00:51were going to harm him. And he says that it is for the tranquility of the country.

00:57Here in the country, there will be tranquility. Here, the most fascist sector of the right-wing

01:02state, if that has gradations, the most fascist is still here, and then the constitution and the

01:09law will intervene. After three unfulfilled summons, the public ministry had issued an

01:22arrest warrant against González Urrutia. The agency had no knowledge of the asylum

01:27since the day the former candidate arrived at the Spanish embassy.

01:36The governments of Spain and Venezuela agreed to grant safe conduct to the citizen Edmundo

01:40González Urrutia to leave the national territory and avail himself of the asylum granted by Spain.

01:52Before going to the Spanish embassy, the former presidential candidate of the extreme right

01:57refuge in the embassy of the Netherlands, which did not inform the Venezuelan authorities about

02:02the situation. It was one day after the presidential elections when the country

02:07was suffering a wave of violence. That is to say, his plan was never an electoral issue.

02:16What did Mr. González Urrutia know about what would happen in Venezuela that he would take refuge?

02:22That was the same day that the Comanditos of Terror were causing disasters and violence

02:27all over the country. That is, while the Comanditos of Terror were burning police modules,

02:32attacking schools, attacking hospitals, Mr. González Urrutia was taking refuge in the

02:37embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Edmundo González faces six charges,

02:46including the publication and maintenance of a webpage with a parallel count of electoral

02:51tally sheets with fraudulent data, usurpation of functions, forgery of public document,

02:57instigation to disobey laws, computer crimes, association to commit a crime and conspiracy.

03:04He left without answering for any of them. In Venezuela, for many it was a posable scenario.

03:14It was a bad candidacy. He knows it was bad and he knows he lost.

03:18Nothing lets hope he doesn't come anymore. Venezuelans will be calmer.

03:23The country will move forward step by step and we have to support our President Nicolás Maduro.

03:32Until the day before Urrutia's departure from Venezuela, his lawyer was told that the former

03:39candidate would not leave the country. Edmundo González Urrutia has in no way

03:44applied for asylum. Spanish media assure that when Vice President

03:51Delcy Rodríguez informed the departure of González Urrutia, some of the former candidate's

03:57closest collaborators were not aware of his departure. The speculations opened the door

04:01to a probable rift between the sectors of the ultra-right, without discarding

04:05the implementation of a new plan of self-proclamation from abroad.

04:09This is clear to the Venezuelan government and it is also clear to the entire Venezuelan society,

04:19which once again sees how the Venezuelan opposition repeats its acts of violation,

04:24does not show its face and hides. They try to lead the country into delicate situations

04:29and within international law, above all they bet on the intervention of other countries.

04:39In a letter published this Monday from Spain, Urrutia tries with his departure to dissociate

04:44himself from the conflicts in Venezuela that his own allies encourage against the country.

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