“The old man left a month ago and the sayona also fled”. This way Nicolas Maduro announced this Wednesday in a televised event the supposed departure from Venezuela of the opposition leader Maria Corina Machadeither. According to the president, the leader of the Vente Venezuela party would have fled to Spainwhere he is exiled Edmundo González. Machado, for his part, has already denied Maduro’s words.
“First he sent someone, a person I cannot name, a close person who takes photographs,” said the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and then he mocked by insinuating what Machado would have said to González. “Go ahead and wait for me there, I’ll go to the end”he said in a mocking tone.
According to Maduro, the sayona – the specter of a Venezuelan legend that punishes unfaithful men and as he usually refers to Machado – would have gone “until the end, a very good tavern there in Spain“. Afterwards, the president asked those present not to tell anyone what he just said. “Raise your hands if you are not going to tell anyone,” he indicated.
The leader of the Vente Venezuela party was quick to deny Maduro’s words. In an interview with the EVTV network, Machado assured that she continues in the country and that she continues fighting alongside the rest of the citizens. “Venezuelans know that I am here in Venezuelapeople know it and Nicolás Maduro also knows it. What happens is that they are desperate to know where I am, and I am not going to give them that pleasure,” he said.
