00:00Caracas, Venezuela once more, where the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,
00:05just offered statements.
00:07Let's see what is going on at this moment in the city, in the capital of Venezuela,
00:12in Caracas.
00:13Let's see.
00:14We were, just minutes before, listening to the statements of the president of the National
00:21Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, who held a press conference regarding the decision of the former
00:26candidate of the far-right wing, Edmundo González Urrutia, to leave the country a
00:31few days earlier and request political asylum in the Kingdom of Spain.
00:37A few days, just hours after the elections were held on July 28th in the country, Edmundo
00:45González took refugee or hide in the Netherlands embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, and a few days
00:53later he asked for asylum in the Kingdom of Spain, diplomatic headquarters in the capital.
01:02So, this was the topic that the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,
01:08was speaking about and offering details about how his departure was carried out in the country.
01:16During his statement, Rodríguez denied what some far-right media and also even González's
01:22lawyer have been saying, that Edmundo González acted on the duress, which means that he acted
01:31on the threats and violence, which was never what really happened.
01:36The Venezuelan authorities never pushed him to leave, as Edmundo González and some far-right
01:42media and even his lawyer have been saying.
01:46This, in a letter, led to bioposition media outlets in the country and abroad.
01:52Edmundo González urged the authorities to allow him to departure the country.
02:02So, this is what we've been reporting for a few days.
02:08Earlier this Wednesday afternoon, the president of the National Assembly offered an interview
02:15with the president of the multiplatform Telesur, Patricia Villegas, in which he expressed and
02:22offered details and recordings and pictures that show Edmundo González asking the Venezuelan
02:29authorities to allow him to leave the country.
02:33So, there is a letter signed, handwritten and signed, by Edmundo González himself,
02:39that was leaked by the opposition media outlets, not by the authorities themselves, in which
02:46Edmundo González urged the authorities to allow him to take a plane towards Spain.
02:51He was already hiding in the Spain diplomatic headquarters in the country.
03:01This is all for the moment, we were listening a few minutes ago to the president of the
03:08National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, regarding the departure from the country of far-right
03:14ex-candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who left the country by his own decision.
03:21This is all for the moment, stay tuned with From the South.
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