Presidents and left-wing leaders have expressed joy over the release of the WikiLeaks founder. Julian Assange after signing a plea agreement with the US Department of Justice.

President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, He was one of the first leaders to react to the news made public this Monday.

“I celebrate the release of Julian Assange from prison. At least in this case The Statue of Liberty did not remain an empty symbol; “She is alive and happy, like millions of people in the world,” Lopez Obrador said in a post on the social network X.

In this message, Lopez Obrador referred to another message made last February, when he proposed that the United States move the Statue of Liberty to Mexico.where “there is freedom”, in the case of the Wikileaks founder.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the virtual elected president of Mexico and the former head of the capital’s government recalled that in February last year she presented the keys to the city to the family of Julian Assange.

“For us, Julian represents the truth, Freedom of expression. We are a progressive city that has always defended great freedoms and the right to free access to information.”

“The long and cruel punishment imposed on him for exposing imperial crimes will remain in the memory of the people as proof of how little his jailers believed in freedom of the press,” the president said on his X account from Cuba. , Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.

President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, He also noted the release of Assange, whom he called “an example of courage and bravery in the fight for truth.”

“On behalf of the people of Venezuela, We hug and congratulate Julian Assange on his release. “This is the triumph of freedom and the struggle of humanity for respect for human rights,” the head of state wrote on the social network X.

“I congratulate Julian Assange on his freedom. Assange’s eternal imprisonment and torture was an attack on press freedom on a global scale. Condemning the massacre of civilians in Iraq by US military action was their crime, now the massacre is being repeated in the Gaza Strip,” said the Colombian President. Gustavo Petro.

The former President of Bolivia spoke in a similar vein: Evo Morales: “We are very happy about the freedom of Julian Assange. He was imprisoned for many years for exposing the crimes of the United States to the world. This has helped us expose and destroy the lies that justify wars and invasions. “This is a day of joy in the struggle for peace,” he said.

Meanwhile in Australia, Assange’s country of origin, its Prime MinisterAnthony Albanese celebrated his release.

“There is no benefit from his imprisonment andor we want to go back to Australia.”Albanese said this today at a parliamentary scrutiny meeting in Canberra, referring to the 52-year-old activist.

And the leader of British Labor Jeremy CorbynIn a short message, he emphasized that “Julian Assange is free. Julian exposed the crimes of the powerful. “His imprisonment was and always will be a grotesque miscarriage of justice.”

“Never stop fighting for the truth. Never lose hope. “Never give up,” he said.

The reaction came just an hour after WikiLeaks reported that Assange left a British maximum security prison on Monday where he was being held and left the United Kingdom with the intention of returning to Australia.

“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June. having spent 1901 days there.” WikiLeaks reported its X account.

Assange will appear on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. local time in court in the Mariana Islands. US territory in the Pacific Ocean to complete a legal settlement reached with the US Department of Justice.

American justice accused Assange of 18 crimes for violating the Espionage Act for one of the largest leaks of classified information in US history in 2010, which revealed secrets from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as information about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay base and other matters.

(EFE)