Venezuelan opposition candidate in exile denounces that his family was threatened

The opposition candidate in the last Venezuelan elections, Edmundo González Urrutia, stated, this Friday (4), in Spain, where he is in exile, that he left Venezuela after suffering threats “to the closest part of my family life”.

“My departure from the country is only temporary. But that doesn’t mean I’m no longer forced to distance myself from Venezuela because of unspeakable pressures and extreme threats that affect even the closest part of my family life,” he said in a speech at the La Toja Forum, which brings together political and economic figures from Thursday to Saturday in northwest Spain.

Candidate in the presidential elections on July 28, in which the opposition denounced that fraud was committed to make President Nicolás Maduro the winner, González Urrutia arrived in Spain on September 8 to seek asylum, after an arrest order was placed upon him. .