Maduro insists on the alleged escape of María Corina Machado

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Nicolás Maduro joked this Monday about an alleged flight from the country of opposition leader María Corina Machadoin hiding after threats of jail for his complaints of fraud in the presidential elections on July 28.

“To her, who fled the country, don’t tell anyone, she left the country, my sources tell me that she fled,” Maduro said with a laugh during his television program and without naming her directly.

«They are cowards, they are good at sending messages of hate, of intolerance, but he left, Gucci suitcases arrived »continued the official who immediately began to chant “and he left and his ship called him”, a line from the popular song “A sailboat called Libertad” by José Luis Perales and Carlos Rivera.

Maduro has been insisting for some time that the opposition, in hiding for two months, is preparing to leave the country like his candidate Edmundo González Urrutia did, now exiled in Spain after an arrest warrant against him for an investigation related to allegations of fraud in the elections.

María Corina Machado: “Here the one who is leaving is Nicolás Maduro”

The AFP tried to contact the opposition’s team, without a response so far.

“I am where I feel most useful for the fight, in Venezuela,” Machado told AFP in late September in an interview.

Then, at the beginning of October, he stated: “Here the one who is leaving is Nicolás Maduro. “I continue with the Venezuelans.”

Maduro was proclaimed winner on July 28 with 52% of the votes by the pro-government National Electoral Council (CNE). which has not yet disclosed a detailed scrutiny as required by lawalleging that its automated system was the target of a cyber attack.

The opposition, led by Machado, claims the victory of Gonzalez Urrutia and published on a website copies of about 80% of the electoral records, which would prove the victory of its candidate. Chavismo denies its validity.

United States, the European Union and Latin American countriesThey have ignored Maduro’s re-election.









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