Diosdado Cabello: Edmundo González Fled Fascism

The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and minister of the interior, Diosdado Cabello, said that the former right-wing presidential candidate, Edmundo González, “left the country because he was fleeing fascism.”

At the party’s weekly press conference, Cabello referred to González’s recent departure from the country to Spain and, in this regard, indicated that “he did not tell anyone, because he was fleeing from the far-right factors, from fascism, not from the government.”

Cabello said that since July 29, González Urrutia was in the embassy of the Netherlands, so “his plan was never electoral, it was never electoral.”

In this regard, he described the Dutch move of hiding González in its Embassy in Caracas as very low.

“The Netherlands are very low. They are pawns used by imperialism in much of the world. Their actions are very low,” stated Cabello, pointing out that the Venezuelan government has the mechanisms to use diplomatic channels to address this situation. The government of the Netherlands did not properly notify the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs of González’s condition as stipulated in diplomatic norms.

They were going to hurt him
Minister Cabello also said that González “left because he knows he did not win, and he knows that those people who were surrounding him were going to hurt him.”

“If anyone was going to harm him, and he was clear about that, it was the María Corina group,” Cabello said, adding that González left voluntarily, “no one forced him.”

In Cabello’s opinion, Edmundo González left peacefully. “I think he was happy.”

Regarding the statements made by the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, who stated that there was no negotiation with the Venezuelan government to grant political asylum to the former candidate, Cabello said that “it contradicts the facts.”

In this regard, he explained that the issue of González leaving the country “was discussed and worked on. The Spanish Foreign Minister does not want to use the term negotiation,” but facts are stubborn.

He also stressed that “Venezuela respects international law and the right to asylum.”

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It’s just marketing
Cabello added that the phrase “until the end,” used by the far right, was a “marketing to deceive people, to get money, to make a few people rich.”

“’Until the end,’ it has never existed,” he added.

(Últimas Noticias) by Ana Perdigón with Orinoco Tribune content

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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