In a message, the Executive VP, Delcy Rodríguez, indicated that “today, September 7, opposition citizen Edmundo González Urrutia, who has been a voluntary refugee in the embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Caracas for several days, has left the country and requested political asylum from that government”.
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00:00Venezuelan Vice President Dulce Rodríguez confirmed that the former presidential candidate
00:04of the Venezuelan far-right Edmundo González Urrutia had left the country for Spain after
00:08the government of Venezuela granted him a safe passage.
00:12Through telegram, she announced that on September 7th, opposition citizen Edmundo González
00:16Urrutia, who has been a voluntary refugee in the embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in
00:20Caracas for several days, had left the country and requested political asylum from that government.
00:26She then added that once the pertinent contacts between both governments had taken place,
00:31the facts of the case had been met and in compliance with international legality, Venezuela
00:35has granted the due safe conducts for the sake of the tranquility and political peace
00:40of the country.
00:41Finally, she highlighted that this conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has
00:45prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international
00:49community.