- The opposition leader made these statements after the Costa Rican government offered her asylum in its embassy in Caracas.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked the Costa Rican government on Tuesday, July 30, for offering her political asylum in the country’s diplomatic headquarters. However, she said that her responsibility is to “continue her fight” from Venezuela.
Our priority is the protection of our fellow asylum seekers at the Argentine Embassy. My responsibility is to continue this fight alongside the people. From Venezuela, thank you to the beloved people and government of Costa Rica,” he wrote on his X account.
The announcement was made shortly after Costa Rican Foreign Minister Arnoldo André offered asylum to both Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo González at the Costa Rican consulate in Caracas.
André extended the offer to “any other politically persecuted in Venezuela, especially those people who are seeking refuge in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas.”
Earlier, the president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, assured that Machado and Edmundo González “They should go to jail”“due to the protests that took place in the country after the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the results that ratify the current president, Nicolás Maduro, in office.
The absence of the minutes on the website of the Electoral Authority has caused various governments, international organizations, political leaders and other personalities to doubt the results issued on Sunday.
Costa Rica does not recognize the results announced by the CNE
After learning that Maduro had been re-elected as president, the Costa Rican government called the result of the electoral process “fraudulent” and on Monday joined Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay in a statement demanding transparency.
The Maduro government described the statement as “interventionist” and ordered the expulsion of diplomats from those seven countries.
However, Costa Rica reported that since 2020 it has suspended its diplomatic relations with Venezuela with the closure of the embassy and that at this time bilateral relations are limited to the consular sphere, which are carried out from its consulates in Panama and Colombia.
“Costa Rica suspended diplomatic relations with the Nicolás Maduro regime since 2020, with the withdrawal of a Costa Rican diplomatic official and the closure of the Embassy and Consulate, which became effective as of October 1, 2020,” the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The text adds that “in 2023, consular, not diplomatic, relations were resumed” and that currently “there is no diplomatic or consular staff in Venezuela.”
With information from EFE
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2024-07-31 16:37:53
