{"id":133607,"date":"2024-09-09T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/venezuelas-gonzalez-vows-to-continue-to-fight-for-democracy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:00:44","slug":"venezuelas-gonzalez-vows-to-continue-to-fight-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/venezuelas-gonzalez-vows-to-continue-to-fight-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Gonz\u00e1lez vows to \u2018continue to fight\u2019 for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133607\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nGetty Images Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia holds a candle during a demonstration with Christian faithful in Caracas, Venezuela on July 21, 2024. Venezuela will hold its presidential elections on July 28.Getty Images Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez has vowed to &#8220;continue to fight&#8221; for democracy in his own country, after being granted asylum in Spain. Mr Gonz\u00e1lez left Venezuela on Saturday, having spent weeks in hiding at the Spanish embassy in Caracas &#8211; arriving at the Torrej\u00f3n de Ardoz military air base in Madrid with his wife at about 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The departure of the 75-year-old from the country followed turmoil in the wake of the 28 July elections, in which President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro claimed victory &#8211; something which was disputed by Mr Gonz\u00e1lez, and many sections of the international community. In an audio message distributed by his press team, he said he was &#8220;confident that soon we will continue the fight to achieve freedom and the recovery of democracy in Venezuela&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his departure, an arrest warrant had been issued in Venezuela, with the government accusing him of conspiracy and of forging documents, among other &#8220;serious crimes&#8221;. Thanking his supporters for expressions of solidarity and confirming his arrival in Spain, Mr Gonz\u00e1lez said: &#8220;My departure from Caracas was surrounded by episodes of pressure, coercion and threats that I wouldn\u2019t be allowed to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the country&#8217;s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wrote on social media that he had made the decision to leave the country because &#8220;his life was in danger&#8221;, citing a &#8220;brutal wave of repression&#8221; in the election aftermath. Ms Machado, a popular candidate in the country, had been expected to run as the candidate against Mr Maduro, but was prevented from doing so at the last minute by institutions loyal to the president.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition claimed it had evidence Mr Gonz\u00e1lez had won by a comfortable margin, and uploaded detailed voting tallies to the internet which suggest Mr Gonz\u00e1lez beat Mr Maduro convincingly. The US, the EU and the majority of foreign governments have refused to accept Mr Maduro as the winner without Caracas releasing detailed voting data to prove the result. In a statement on Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Mr Gonzalez&#8217;s departure from Venezuela &#8220;is the direct result of the anti-democratic measures that Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has unleashed on the Venezuelan people, including [Edmundo] Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia and other opposition leaders, since the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The election results and the will of the people cannot be merely swept aside by Maduro and the Venezuelan electoral authorities. We stand with Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia in his call to continue the struggle for liberty and the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c623yqdn7eeo\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c623yqdn7eeo\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/venezuelas-gonzalez-vows-to-continue-to-fight-for-democracy\/\">Venezuela&#8217;s Gonz\u00e1lez vows to &#8216;continue to fight&#8217; for democracy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[12133,606,607,608,16031],"class_list":["post-133607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-democrasy","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-venezuelas-gonzalez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}