BUENOS AIRES- The Foreign Minister of Argentina, Diana Mondino confirmed this Friday that Buenos Aires negotiated safe passage for the six collaborators of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado who were taking refuge in its Embassy in Caracas and who have already received political asylum.
“We were managing it. It was not that easy,” he explained during an event held in the city of Córdoba in which he confirmed that Buenos Aires enabled its diplomatic legation for all those opponents who would like to request political asylum, reports the Infobae news portal.
Mondino assured that the Government granted political asylum to the opponents: Pedro Urruchurtu, Humberto Villalobos, Claudia Macero, Omar González, Fernando Martínez Mottola and Magallí Meda, the latter the head of Machado’s electoral campaign.
Last Sunday, the Argentine Government paralyzed the sending of eight gendarmes to Venezuela that they were going to join the security of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas because the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, decided to veto their entry.
This incident occurred after the Argentine authorities reported that the Embassy had suffered an interruption in the electricity supply after hosting opponents in the hours before the closing of the registration of candidates for the presidential elections next July.
Source: EUROPA PRESS
