The government of Costa Rica offered this Tuesday political asylum to the presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia already the leader of the opposition, Maria Corina Machado, after the threats detention measures promoted by the president Nicolas Maduro and the head of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez.
The Costa Rican foreign minister, Arnoldo Andre Tinocoissued a message tonight to announce the offer of shelter to opposition leaders. “We have been informed that There are warrants for arrest and capture against Maria Corina Machado and of Edmundo Gonzalez In Venezuela, the Government of the Republic hereby announces that We are willing to grant political asylumrefuge in Costa Rica,” he said.
The head of diplomacy of Costa Rica extended protection “to both Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez and any other politically persecuted person in Venezuela.” In addition, he offered asylum to the leaders who are within the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, who claim that the headquarters is under siege by security forces.
After the offer, Machado He thanked “the generous hospitality of the Costa Rican government” “as a reaction to the brutal repression of the Maduro regime against citizens who defend the results of the presidential election of July 28” but He stressed that his responsibility “is to continue this fight alongside the people.”
He also said that the opposition’s priority “is the protection of our colleagues who have sought asylum in the Argentine Embassy.”
Nicolas Maduro threatened Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez with jail
Ripe He blamed the opposition Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia by “criminal violence” that has left “wounded and dead” in Venezuela, after Sunday’s elections in which the president was declared the winner and the opposition claims as fraudulent.
“I hold Mr. González Urrutia responsible for everything that is happening in Venezuela, for the criminal violence, the criminals, the wounded, the dead, the destruction. You will be directly responsible, Mr. González Urrutia and Mrs. (María Corina) Machado, and justice will come,” he said.
Earlier, the president of the Venezuelan Congress, Jorge Rodriguez, requested the arrest of Gonzalez Urrutia and Machadofollowing the escalation of tension that is being experienced in Venezuela.
In a speech, Rodriguez said that “with fascism there can be no consideration, there is no dialogue, no procedural benefits are given. Fascism is not forgiven.”
“There is no compromise with fascism, the laws apply. With this I mean that the Public Ministry has to act as it is acting, not only with the criminals, their bosses have to go to jail, those who ordered them, those who paid them, and when I say bosses, I don’t just mean them.” Maria Corina Machado, who has to go to jail, I am referring to Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, because he is the head of the conspiracy fascist system that they are trying to impose in Venezuela. That is the truth,” the official added.
Source: Ambito
