Venezuela's opposition figure flees to Spain, vows to 'continue the fight'
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00:00The Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González arrived in Spain seeking
00:06asylum amid a political and diplomatic crisis over Venezuela's disputed July election.
00:13Supporters gathered at the military base in Madrid where his plane landed and expressed
00:17relief that he was safe.
00:21Whoever is in danger under Nicolás Maduro's regime should be safer here and can maintain
00:26their strategy from here.
00:31They forced him to flee.
00:33This only confirms that Venezuela is a dictatorship that's impossible to live in.
00:39If you don't agree with the regime, you have to leave or you might get killed.
00:44González arrived after Caracas granted safe passage.
00:49His surprise departure came just days after Maduro's government ordered his arrest.
00:58The governments of Spain and Venezuela agreed on providing safe conduct to citizen Edmundo
01:04González so he could abandon national territory and he could receive the asylum granted by
01:12Spain.
01:13The Spanish foreign minister says there were no talks on González's exile.
01:21There has not been any kind of political negotiation between the government of Spain and the government
01:26of Venezuela.
01:28The political asylum has been at the personal request of Edmundo González.
01:36Venezuela's opposition says July's election resulted in a resounding win for González
01:40and published vote tallies online to show that.
01:44Nicolás Maduro, now into his third term as president, has dismissed that and says there
01:51was a right-wing plot to sabotage his government.
01:54The US, EU and various foreign governments say they won't accept his win until he releases
01:59proof that he got most votes.