Caracas/María Corina Machado denied the statements of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who confirmed this Wednesday that the leader of the opposition fled to Spain. “Venezuelans know that I am here in Venezuela. “People know it and Nicolás Maduro knows it too, what happens is that they really want to know where I am and I’m not going to give them that pleasure,” said the opposition member in an interview with Bill. EVTV channel.

The Venezuelan Government had insisted that Machado “fled the country to Spain”, where the usual conservative of the opposition coalition, Edmundo González Urrutia, considered the winner of the last presidential elections on July 28 with Spanish Congress of Deputies, in exile. .

In a televised event, Maduro – who was nominated for re-election by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) – said that “la sayona” – as Machado is often referred to in a derogatory way -“also left” the country and “escaped”. to “a very good hotel there somewhere in Spain”.

“I am here with the Venezuelans, here, obviously protecting and taking care of myself because I am not going to give them the pleasure of knowing where I am,” Machado told EVTV without specifying whether she was sheltered in a diplomatic headquarters within the organization. a country

Although Nicolás Maduro did not mention the name of the opponent in his statements, the Minister of Communications, Freddy Ñáñez, collected these statements and assured Telegram, according to the president, “María fled Corina Machado the country to Spain. ”

In particular, Maduro said: “I have a secret for you, but I don’t know, do you know how to keep a secret? (…) Who likes gossip? (…) It turns out to be the old man. (in reference to González Urrutia) she left a month ago, (…) and the sayona also left, she fled, she fled, (…) she left until the end, a real hotel well there somewhere in Spain, (…) “That’s as far as he got. Please don’t tell anyone about this.”

“I am here with the Venezuelans, here, obviously protecting and taking care of myself because I am not going to give them the pleasure of knowing where I am. “

The Saaghan He is a character who, according to Venezuelan oral literature, appears in the form of a ghost and punishes unfaithful men.

Last Monday, the president said, without giving names or direct references, that “she” had left the country, despite being banned from leaving the national territory since June 2014.

“Don’t tell anyone, he left the country, my sources tell me he escaped (…) they are cowards, they are good at spreading messages of hate and intolerance sent in, but left, the Gucci suitcases arrived and left. “, he then, again, kept giving no name.

González Urrutia, leader of the main opposition coalition – the United Democratic Platform (PUD) – arrived in Madrid on September 8, after requesting asylum due to the political and legal “persecution” he said he had suffered. in his country after the elections.

After the opponent left, Machado, who says he is “in hiding”, fearing for his “life” and “liberty”, reiterated that he will continue to fight from Venezuela, while’ González Urrutia will do that “from the outside.”

Likewise, on September 30, the vice president, in her acceptance speech via video conference after winning the Václav Havel Human Rights Award, reiterated that she would “continue to ‘fight with the Venezuelan people.’

On the other hand, the acting vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, called Machado “phony” and “fly dead” this Wednesday, whom she accused of asking for sanctions and, at at the same time, speaking for a salary increase for workers, who, according to the official, were “hit hard” by these foreign measures.

Machado expressed his “deep respect and admiration” for the educators, who, despite “starvation wages,” have been “at the forefront of this fight, with a call and endless dedication.”

“Who requested the ban against Venezuela? Leopoldo López, Julio Borges, Juan Guaidó, María Corina Machado, who then uses the voice of a dead mosquito, and then causes great damage to Venezuela and still today calls for more sanctions, (. . . . .) She then, every day, makes videos (saying): ‘dear workers, I am with you, worker, and now we are going to fight for Venezuela and for your terms,’” said Rodríguez.

She asked that Machado, “dragged into the United States Government, wants sanctions and sanctions against Venezuela,” and that is why the Minister of Petroleum indicated the a former vice president and the other opponents she described as “terrible frauds.”

Likewise, Rodríguez assured that the workers have been “at the forefront” of the “active resistance against the criminal blockade imposed from Washington with the support of Western countries” because of” the call made by the extremists and fascists in Venezuela to leaders and anti-Chavista leaders.

The vice president attacked Machado a few days after the opposition expressed its “great respect and admiration” for educators, who, despite “starvation wages,” have “still at the forefront of this fight, with endless calling and delivery,” according to the deputy.