Pedro Sanchez's operation to do Maduro a big favor by faking a humanitarian act

In the last few hours it has become known that the country's president-elect, Edmundo González, has left Venezuela for Spain.

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Last night, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced: "Edmundo González has taken off from Caracas towards Spain on a Spanish Air Force plane." Previously, the president-elect of Venezuela had been threatened with an arrest warrant by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, which even threatened to arrest González's family, in a coercive operation that is very common in dictatorships like that one.

An operation orchestrated by Zapatero and two leaders of the dictatorship

The banishment of Edmundo González from is, apparently, a humanitarian act on the part of Pedro Sánchez's government, but the reality is very different. Let us remember that Sánchez is part of the same party, the PSOE, as José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a great defender of Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship. In fact, this Sunday the socialist newspaper El País affirms that Zapatero played a key role in this operation to get Edmundo González out of Venezuela, and adds:

"Spain insists that it was Edmundo himself who requested asylum, but other sources familiar with the conversations maintain that all this has been the result of a negotiation in which even the Rodríguez brothers, Delcy and Jorge, the political operators closest to Maduro, have participated."

In addition to this, we must remember that Sánchez's communist allies support that dictatorship, approving the electoral fraud committed by Maduro and supporting the international extreme left's pressure campaign in favor of that dictatorship.

Sánchez did not recognize González's victory and gave the dictator time to defuse the protests

The attitude of the Spanish government and the PSOE is very revealing in this regard. The Sánchez government has not at any time recognized the electoral victory of Edmundo González, despite the evidence presented by the opposition to the Maduro dictatorship when compiling the minutes of the electoral process. In fact, the Sánchez government has acted with a premeditated delay, giving Maduro time so that the protests in Venezuela against the electoral fraud of the dictatorship would die down and cease to be in the focus of attention of the international media.

Furthermore, Sanchez guarantees that he will not receive criticism from Edmundo Gonzalez and other opponents of the Maduro dictatorship, by presenting himself as the good man who welcomed the Venezuelan president-elect to Spain. In reality, Sanchez did Maduro a favor by not recognizing Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner in the Venezuelan elections, thus reducing international pressure against the Maduro dictatorship. It must also be taken into account that Spain has a special weight in the European Union in everything that concerns Latin America, and Sanchez has used this to defuse pressure on Maduro, with his position of refusing to recognize Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner.

Sanchez takes a problem off Maduro's hands

Finally, by removing Edmundo González from Venezuela, Sánchez removes a problem from Maduro's hands, and he does so by pretending to be a humanitarian act and saying that he is doing it at the request of the president-elect, who was previously subjected to a strong wave of coercion by the dictatorship. More than a humanitarian act, what happened today seems like an operation orchestrated by Sánchez and Maduro to mutually benefit each other. Both manage to get Edmundo González to leave Venezuela, surely with the intention of defusing the protests in the country.

To cite some more data, we must remember that in 2018, as soon as he came to power, Sánchez denied that Venezuela was a dictatorship and rejected that Maduro be tried for his crimes. Two years later, the Sánchez government allowed Delcy Rodríguez to disembark in Spain a series of suitcases without any control and violating the sanctions of the European Union to that dictatorship, in what finally ended up being revealed as another case of political corruption of the socialists in Spain. Four years later, if Maduro is still in power it is, in part, due to the favours done for him by the Sánchez government, which is now trying to clean up its image in this regard by presenting itself as the Samaritan who welcomed Edmundo González.

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Photo: Efe. Pedro Sánchez with his Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.