The Costa Rican government proposed on Tuesday political refuge presidential candidate of Venezuela Edmundo Gonzalez already the leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado upon learning that arrest warrants had been issued against them.

“We were informed that There are warrants for arrest, arrest and arrest. against María Corina Machado and Edmundo González in Venezuela. Through me, the Government of the Republic announces that we are ready to grant political asylum in Costa Rica to both María Corina Machado and Edmundo González,” Foreign Minister Arnoldo André said in a video released to the media.

The Chancellor extended this proposal to “all other politically persecuted people in Venezuela, especially those people who they are refugees at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas.”

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday accused opposition majority presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia of The death toll is estimated by civil society groups at 11 people. recorded in the protests of the last few hours against the results of the electoral body on Sunday, which confirmed the Chavista leader in his position.

Maduro also blamed anti-Chavista leader María Corina Machado for the violence, carried out mainly by the security forces. the police and military who repressed pellets and tear gas at peaceful protesters, which has been confirmed EFE in Caracas.

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After learning of Nicolás Maduro’s re-election as president last Sunday, Costa Rican government calls election results ‘rigged’ and on Monday it joined Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay in a statement calling for transparency.

Maduro’s government called the statement “interference” and ordered to expel diplomats from these seven countries.

However, Costa Rica says it has suspended diplomatic relations with Venezuela as of 2020 with the closure of the embassy and that at the moment bilateral relations are limited to the consular sphere, which are carried out from their consulates in Panama and Colombia.

“Costa Rica has suspended diplomatic relations with the Nicolás Maduro regime since 2020, following the recall of a Costa Rican diplomatic official and the closure of its embassy and consulate, which entered into force on October 1, 2020“, – said a statement from the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry.

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The text adds that “in 2023 consular relations were resumednot diplomatic” and that there are currently “no diplomatic or consular personnel in Venezuela.”EFE)