The Government of Maduro accuses Spain of complicity in the escape of Leopoldo López

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, in Caracas, last February Carolina Cabral /

The government of Nicolás Maduro reacted this Sunday with accusations and irritation to the departure of opposition leader Leopoldo López, who had been sheltered in the Spanish embassy in Caracas for a year and a half before fleeing abroad.

In a statement signed by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, Caracas rejects what it considers “the flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by the Government of Spain, by facilitating, with notable complicity, the escape of the terrorist Leopoldo López. "

Chavismo resorts to the usual rhetoric of the foreign enemy and once again attacks the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Jesús Silva, during this time.

The Executive believes that Spain encourages and protects the escape of "a dangerous criminal."

The text speaks of "the antidiplomatic and hostile practice of the Spanish State towards Venezuela." The day after López's departure, officials of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, the regime's political police, detained Nubia Campos, López's cook at the embassy Spanish, and José Neira, who worked there as a guard and also raided their residences, to subject them to interrogations.

Almost at the same time as Arreaza's statements, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the arrests of its embassy personnel by the Venezuelan police, also accusing Caracas of violating the Vienna Convention.

The text adds: "Spain reiterates its conviction that the multidimensional crisis that Venezuela is going through requires a negotiated solution, led by the Venezuelans themselves, that allows the holding of legislative and presidential elections with full democratic guarantees."

The crossing of accusations and claims between the governments of Venezuela and Spain for the escape of López completely contradicts a widely spread rumor in Caracas, held as true by most of the informed sources, according to which his departure could have been agreed with him. Maduro's government based on the offices of Spain, in order to facilitate communication between the two countries and free Spain from that commitment in the city of Caracas itself.

However, moments after Leopoldo López's departure from the country was announced, opposition leader Juan Guaidó - a militant, like López, from the Voluntad Popular party - had declared on his Twitter account: “Maduro, you don't control anything.

By circumventing your repressive apparatus, we managed to get our Commissioner for the Center of Government, Leopoldo López, to international territory.

His contribution for Venezuela continues from this new space of action. "