The government insists that María Corina Machado fled to Spain

The government of Venezuela assured this Wednesday that the opposition leader “María Corina Machado fled the country to Spain”, where the man is exiled. standard bearer of the opposition coalitionEdmundo González Urrutia, considered winner of the last presidential elections of July 28 by the Spanish Congress of Deputies.

In a televised event, President Nicolás Maduro – proclaimed re-elected by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) – said that “la sayona” – as Machado is often referred to disparagingly – “also left” the country and “fled” until “a very good tavern there in a part of Spain.”

Although the head of state did not mention the name of the opponent, the Minister of Communication, Freddy Ñáñez, collected these statements and assured on Telegram that, according to the president, “María Corina Machado fled the country to Spain.”

María Corina in Spain

Maduro said: «I have a secret for you, but I don’t know, do you know how to keep a secret? Who likes gossip? It turns out that the old man (alluding to González Urrutia) left a month ago, and the sayona also left, he fled, he fled, he went until the end, a very good tavern somewhere in Spain, he went as far as there. Please don’t tell this to anyone.”

La Sayona is a character who, according to Venezuelan oral literature, appears in the form of a ghost and punishes unfaithful men.

Last Monday, the president, without giving names or direct references, said that “she” had left the country, despite the fact that she has been prohibited from leaving the national territory since June 2014.

«Don’t tell anyone, he left the country, my sources tell me that he fled. “They are cowards, they are good at sending messages of hate and intolerance, but he left, the Gucci suitcases arrived and he left,” he said then, once again, without giving any name.

González Urrutia, leader of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – arrived in Madrid on September 8, after requesting asylum due to the political and judicial “persecution” that he reported having suffered in his country after the elections. .

After the departure of the opponent, Machado, who claims to be “underground”, fearing for his “life” and “freedom”, reiterated that he will continue fighting from Venezuela, while González Urrutia will do so “from outside.”

On September 30, the former deputy, in her thank-you speech via videoconference after winning the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, reiterated that she will “continue fighting alongside the Venezuelan people.”