Venezuela's opposition figure flees to Spain, vows to 'continue the fight'

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00:00The Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González arrived in Spain seeking

00:06asylum amid a political and diplomatic crisis over Venezuela's disputed July election.

00:13Supporters gathered at the military base in Madrid where his plane landed and expressed

00:17relief that he was safe.

00:21Whoever is in danger under Nicolás Maduro's regime should be safer here and can maintain

00:26their strategy from here.

00:31They forced him to flee.

00:33This only confirms that Venezuela is a dictatorship that's impossible to live in.

00:39If you don't agree with the regime, you have to leave or you might get killed.

00:44González arrived after Caracas granted safe passage.

00:49His surprise departure came just days after Maduro's government ordered his arrest.

00:58The governments of Spain and Venezuela agreed on providing safe conduct to citizen Edmundo

01:04González so he could abandon national territory and he could receive the asylum granted by

01:12Spain.

01:13The Spanish foreign minister says there were no talks on González's exile.

01:21There has not been any kind of political negotiation between the government of Spain and the government

01:26of Venezuela.

01:28The political asylum has been at the personal request of Edmundo González.

01:36Venezuela's opposition says July's election resulted in a resounding win for González

01:40and published vote tallies online to show that.

01:44Nicolás Maduro, now into his third term as president, has dismissed that and says there

01:51was a right-wing plot to sabotage his government.

01:54The US, EU and various foreign governments say they won't accept his win until he releases

01:59proof that he got most votes.

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