Spain’s leftist authorities stated Monday it was a “mistake” for Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado to satisfy right-wing events in Madrid whereas declining talks with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who addressed supporters at a big rally in Madrid on Saturday, has criticised Spain’s authorities for no more forcefully condemning human rights abuses in Venezuela.
She met with the chief of Spain’s major opposition conservative Widespread Get together (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in addition to the top of the far-right Vox get together, Santiago Abascal, throughout her time within the Spanish capital.
Nonetheless, she instructed Spanish media she declined a gathering with Sánchez as a result of it might not serve the “greater goal” of Venezuela’s freedom.
Spanish International Minister José Manuel Albares stated Machado had acted as an “ideological chief” by partaking with solely a part of Spain’s political spectrum.
“I sincerely imagine that could be a mistake. And when it’s the far-right faction, it’s an excellent larger mistake,” Albares stated throughout an interview with Spanish public radio.
Albares rejected Machado’s criticisms as “unfair,” noting that Spain has granted refuge to a number of Venezuelan opposition figures similar to Leopoldo López and has supplied Machado refuge in Caracas previously.
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Machado, who was in hiding earlier than leaving Venezuela in December to gather her Nobel Prize in Oslo, was barred from operating for president within the 2024 election, which resulted in longtime chief Nicolas Maduro claiming re-election in a vote the opposition says was rigged.
Since leaving Venezuela, Machado has held talks with world leaders, together with US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, as she lobbies for worldwide help for the Venezuelan opposition.
