The leader of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado, is in Madrid and was received this Friday (April 17) by the Spanish opposition, but refused a meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Sánchez said she would be “very happy” to meet with the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but that she “did not consider it appropriate” to meet. However, “the doors of the Moncloa Palace are open” if he changes his position.
Corina Machado herself had said, when she announced her visit to Madrid, that this meeting was “not suitable” at this time.
In an interview with Antena 3, María Corina Machado explained that the Venezuelan opposition missed a “public denunciation of the violation of human rights and the demand for the release of political prisoners” in Venezuela by the Spanish government.
He also described as a “big mistake” the proposal made by Spain to the European Union to suspend sanctions against the interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, in response to the steps she has been taking “in the right direction”.
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