Opposition figure flees Venezuela for exile in Spain
Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had no choice but to flee Venezuela for exile in Spain to save his own life amid a "brutal wave of repression" after disputed presidential elections, the leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado said Sunday. Gonzalez Urrutia, who the opposition says it can prove won July 28 elections in which strongman Nicolas Maduro claimed a widely questioned victory, arrived in Spain Sunday after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country.
Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had no choice but to flee Venezuela for exile in Spain to save his own life amid a "brutal wave of repression" after disputed presidential elections, the leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado said Sunday. Gonzalez Urrutia, who the opposition says it can prove won July 28 elections in which strongman Nicolas Maduro claimed a widely questioned victory, arrived in Spain Sunday after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country.
