Julio Borges reveals details about his exile: Zapatero threatened me

Julio Borges, former president of the National Assembly (AN), revealed details of his forced exile in an interview with the journalist David Pleasureto whom he assured that his departure from the country was marked by coercion and threats. Among the figures involved were the brothers Jorge and Delcy Rodriguez and the former president of the Spanish Government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

The forced exile of Julio Borges, six years ago, marks a parallelism with the one recently suffered by Edmundo González Urrutiawho took refuge in Spain after being forced to sign a document drafted by the administration of Nicolás Maduro.

In the case of Borges, he explained that his departure was negotiated with Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez, and Rodríguez Zapatero, so that the opposition would go to elections with the parties and candidates disqualified.

But in the case of this opposition leader, at the last minute he refused to sign the document presented to him by the Maduro government.

“I told them I was going to sign, but at the last minute I didn’t sign.”Borges revealed in the interview. In response, Rodríguez Zapatero reportedly told him: “You have not seen my bad side. You will see the consequences.”

As a result, Julio Borges had his parents’ house taken away, Fernando Albán, a colleague from the political party, was murdered, and his entire team and close collaborators were persecuted, he denounced.

The opponent said that Shoemaker He is Maduro’s “good cop,” but deep down he is more perverse than the bad guys. He denounced that the former president, as part of Venezuela’s repressive apparatus, convinces opponents to go into exile.

Borges commented that he understands Edmundo González Urrutia’s decision to leave Venezuela, since it was not voluntary but because had “a shotgun to his head” (in reference to the coercion of the Maduro administration).