The role of the former president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero In Venezuela it is something undeniable. Recently, the shadow of the former general secretary of the PSOE extends from the time the elections were held until the subsequent departure of the opponent Edmundo González; but the figure of Zapatero continues to be surrounded by controversy, especially after the Government praised a management, which, according to the new documentation to which it has been able to access They got up, now denies.
Based on these documents, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albaresassured that the former president has carried out efforts in Venezuela, that the Government “appreciate and value”“for a long time.” “He speaks with the Government and he speaks with the opposition and he has participated very directly in bringing closer that dialogue between Venezuelans that we want and in the release of many political prisoners,” Albares assured, later adding that: “I do not reveal the contacts that one has. or does not have it, I am not going to speak on behalf of President Zapatero.
What’s more, Zapatero himself boasted of having played an important role in Venezuela and claimed to have participated “in the task of facilitation” so that the Venezuelan opposition leader, Edmundo González, I could come to Spainalso ensuring that he knew everything that had happened in Venezuela in recent months, although he avoided any statement so as not to break the “trust” that has been carved out in recent years.
However, now, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as stated in a document that this media has accessed, dated October 18 and signed by the minister’s cabinet director, Sergio Cuesta Franciscorefutes Albares’ words that he expressed in his public statements in which he defended Zapatero’s work.
Specifically, Sergio Cuesta Francisco, Albares’ Chief of Staff, denies that the minister or any other public official dependent on the Ministry met with the former president.
Likewise, he is not aware of the actions carried out by Zapatero and that, according to Albares, “have meant the release of many political prisoners”, up to 80, according to socialist spokesperson Patxi López, nor from “the rest of the actions valued and appreciated by the Government of Spain”, despite the defense of the former president’s actions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In this way, the minister’s own chief of staff denies the statements of Minister Albares, something that this newspaper already put on the table, when it published that it was Jorge Rodriguezbrother of Delcy Rodríguez, the one who negotiated the departure of Edmundo González and Zapatero only had one “tangential paper”. In fact, as this newspaper has reported, the negotiation “was very fast.”
The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, assured last September that “It is not true that (Zapatero) saved Edmundohe became part, or he operated as part of a regime maneuver against Venezuelans, and this is very serious.” In addition, he added that the departure of the Venezuelan opponent occurred through “a grotesque operation“horrible, set up by the regime, with operators inside and outside the country.”
These statements have also been supported by a senior Brazilian official, as published Financial Times and what he collected They got upwho said that Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez went to the residence of the opposition candidate to pressure him. “Maduro expelled him of the country through intimidation and… the Spanish State was the main facilitator“. According to Financial Times sources, the former socialist president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has also been a “key figure” in the negotiations for the asylum of González Urrutia. The senior Brazilian official tells the FT that Zapatero had discussed the exile plan with the Rodríguez brothers.
José Manuel Albares declared in Brussels that the Spanish government nor did he send anyone to visit Edmundo González, nor “participated in any negotiations of any document.”
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
