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The opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez On Sunday he shared his first photo with his wife Lilian Tintori and their three children, with whom he had not met for 6 years, since he was imprisoned in Venezuela.
The youngest, only 2 years old, was born while he was in prison, so it is the first time he has seen him released, according to Infobae.
Charismatic former mayor of the wealthy Caracas municipality of Chacao, he was sentenced in 2015 to almost 14 years in prison, accused of inciting violence in protests against the government of President Nicolás Maduro that left 43 dead and some 3,000 injured between February and May 2014.
In 2017, he received house arrest, after which he was released by his guards and participated in a failed uprising by a group of soldiers against Maduro on April 30, 2019, which was backed by parliamentary chief Juan Guaidó.
After the failure of the uprising, López took refuge in the house of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, where he was as a guest.
Venezuelan government against Spanish ambassador
The government of the president Nicolas Maduro accused the ambassador of Spain in Venezuela, Jesús Silva, of being an “accomplice” in the “escape” of the opponent Leopoldo López, who escaped after 18 months as a guest of the Spanish residence in Caracas.
“It is clearly verifiable that the head of the Spanish diplomatic mission in Venezuela acted as the main organizer and confessed accomplice of the announced flight from Venezuelan territory of the criminal Leopoldo López,” indicates the statement released by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.
López arrived in Madrid this Sunday after clandestinely leaving his country.
Following the departure of the 49-year-old opponent, Caracas denounced “the flagrant breach of the fundamental provisions of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations”, on the part of Spain, “expressed through incessant interference actions in its relationship with the Venezuelan State and its institutions.”
Silva had been expelled on January 25, 2018, indicated by the Maduro government “of repeated interference in internal affairs”, but then “an agreement was reached with the Spanish authorities” on his return “in April of that same year, under a renewed commitment respecting Venezuelan and international laws, ”the text reviewed.
“Quite the contrary, the biased diplomatic practice of the Spanish representative became even more notable, to the point of sheltering under a non-existent and unlawful figure, in the residence of Spain itself, a fugitive convicted by the Venezuelan justice, responsible, among others crimes, the death and injuries of hundreds of Venezuelans in 2014, ”the letter stressed.
López, a charismatic former mayor of the wealthy Caracas municipality of Chacao, was sentenced in 2015 to almost 14 years in prison, accused of inciting violence in protests against the government of President Nicolás Maduro that left 43 dead and some 3,000 injured between February and May of 2014.
In 2017, he received a house by jail, from where he was released by his guards and participated in a failed uprising by a group of soldiers against Maduro on April 30, 2019, which was backed by the parliamentary chief Juan Guaidó.
After the failure of the uprising, López took refuge in the house of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas.
Faced with the escape, “the institutions of the Venezuelan State will comply with their constitutional obligation to carry out the necessary investigations and establish the responsibilities and penalties corresponding to the crimes committed, in strict adherence to Venezuelan and international laws and the guarantee of due process,” he added. the notice.
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