Statements made by President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, during a press conference to address the latest claims of duress by former opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. teleSUR
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00:00Yesterday, this person, González Gurrutia, came out saying that he was subjected to coercion
00:09and pressure from someone that no one denies is powerful, but is 170 centimeters, Dilsey,
00:23the vice president of the republic, who also has a bandage on her hand.
00:29He was subjected to pressure and blackmail.
00:39We, close to the truth as we are, told him, retract, correct yourself, correct this statement
00:50because also you are causing trouble to the ambassador of the embassy of Spain in Venezuela
01:02because all of these coercion and pressure events, as you call them, supposedly happened
01:11in the residence of the ambassador of Spain on the extreme right of Spain, along with
01:18their followers and the fascists of Venezuela, are repeating this.
01:27Well, first, yesterday, Mr. González Gurrutia, looking for ways to unlink from this situation,
01:43tried to get out of it, and he was into it more.
01:51Let's play a video.
01:53Fellow mates, I address to you to inform you about the truth of what happened with my departure
02:01from Venezuela.
02:02The regime pretends that all Venezuelans lose our hope.
02:08The whole world knows that they always resort to dirty game and blackmail and manipulation.
02:19Being in the residence of the ambassador of Spain, President of the National Assembly
02:24Jorge Rodríguez and Vice President of the Republic Dilsey Rodríguez, this is a video
02:37recorded by González Gurrutia yesterday in Madrid, capital of Spain, and in spite of
02:46the silly things he said, there's something interesting because he calls me President
02:54of the National Assembly of Venezuela.
02:56I mean, he recognizes that the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela is not
03:01Dinorah Figueras.
03:03Taking care of him in Spain is not the thief one way or the other.
03:09According to him, the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Venezuela is Jorge
03:15Rodríguez because let's prove that word by word it corresponds to the handwriting and
03:28concepts of González Gurrutia.
03:31Headline checked, Jorge Rodríguez, President of the National Assembly, headline of the
03:38letter.
03:39But there's something else that is even more important, which is that he refers to Dilsey
03:45Eloína Rodríguez Gómez as the Vice President of Venezuela.
03:51And what is Dilsey Eloína Rodríguez Vice President of?
03:57She's Executive Vice President of the Republic of Venezuela, appointed by who?
04:03It's like in Spain that there's a king of vice president for blood right or like in
04:13the Netherlands or the monarchies that exist in the European Union.
04:18No, she is appointed by the Constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros,
04:28and he is recognizing that the President of Venezuela is Nicolás Maduro Moros, who appointed
04:37his vice president.
04:42About the so-called coercion facts and blackmail facts, I want to say something about that.
04:49Stay tuned with this.
04:57We said yesterday, we established contact with the interlocutor and Mr. González Gurrutia
05:08as request from them because he expressed his desire of leaving the country and running
05:19away of this country.
05:22And he presented a document where he expressed his position about certain issues of the political
05:32life of Venezuela and his behavior according to what he said when he will leave the Republic
05:40of Venezuela.
05:41They looked for us.
05:47After advancing, we must say entirely, I don't want to be rude, but this is nothing else
05:55but a proof of giving up.
06:03He does a capitulation of a position and an aspiration that was defeated by the people
06:10of Venezuela on July 28.
06:14This is a capitulation in military terms.
06:17If we were in a confrontation, he is giving up.
06:21But only we are very careful of the respect and honor and the intentions of the people.
06:35If those people don't respect their honor, it's their problem.
06:42But in respectful terms and about his dignity, this is nothing else but a capitulation.
06:52Signed by Mr. González Gurrutia.
07:03When talking about the final aspects of his capitulation, we were summoned by Vice President
07:11Del Cid Rodriguez and I to where he was at that time, Mr. González Gurrutia, which was
07:18the residency of the ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain.
07:25Another element, very interesting, and speaks a lot about his character, Mr. González Gurrutia
07:33was in the embassy of the Netherlands the same day of the elections.
07:41Until the National Electoral Council didn't name the elected president, and the supposed
07:51fake tally sheets weren't shown yet, and the process of the electoral process wasn't started,
08:01and he wasn't being summoned yet by the Supreme Court of Justice.
08:09He wasn't in this supposed mistakes weren't reflected that were published in X by Mr.
08:23González Gurrutia, and then says to the prosecutor's office that he has nothing to do with this
08:28tally sheets.
08:29That's what he declared at that time.
08:33I still didn't know him to coerce him on the night of the 28th when he locked himself in
08:43the embassy of the Netherlands, when he was requested to go out to those violent acts
08:52summoned by the Supreme Court of Venezuela.
08:54He came out only one time of the embassy, breaking the law of the embassy.
09:03He was in an act, seated in a truck, and came back fast to the embassy of the Netherlands
09:10when the interlocutor appointed by him didn't look for him, and we started the conversation.
09:17Then he moved from the embassy of the Netherlands that is very close to the residency of the
09:22embassy of Spain.
09:25How these conversations occurred, there were several conversations.
09:30We have recordings of this.
09:32There were two personal conversations, but with the interlocutor appointed by him, we
09:38had several encounters to establish positions about the intentions and the things that he
09:52was going to say.
09:54When we arrived, we were welcomed by the ambassador.
10:00Something else has been said that we interrupted there.
10:06We are decent people.
10:09We don't break in embassies.
10:13We rang the bell, and nicely, the security personnel of the embassy opened the door.
10:23The ambassador was there and was greeting us nicely, and at the door was Mr. González
10:30Urrutia.
10:33We were in the living room of the house that I know very well, not because I attended any
10:40event of the embassy, but because there we held the conversations and negotiations with
10:48the sector of the oppositor rights when they caused the trouble of 2017, and we were in
11:00the living room of the house.
11:02Who were there?
11:05Well, the vice president, ratified by Mr. González Urrutia, and I, next to me, Mr.
11:15González Urrutia, and next to him, the interlocutor that we exchanged some position with him about
11:28the intentions of him to leave the country.
11:31What was the tone of this meeting?
11:38I'm going to show a fragment of the beginning of the meeting and then a fragment of the
11:45end so that you see the tone where he affirmed being forced.
12:01When we were sitting there, they offered us drinks, whiskey, they brought a bottle
12:26of whiskey and glasses, and then the ambassador brought ice and chocolates, Venezuelan chocolates,
12:33and the vice president, since she was taking some medication, didn't have any drink.
12:40And there's something I have to say here.
12:43There was a certain smell of alcohol at that meeting before the bottle was brought by the
12:54ambassador.
12:55I'm telling you this before the night when we were sent a solicitude by Mr. González
13:03Urrutia, and there was no way to find—since he was tired by the effects of alcohol and
13:13the medicines he takes.
13:15But that was the tone we were talking about there.