{"id":14994,"date":"2024-10-10T19:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2024-10-10T19:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:37:16","slug":"venezuela-opposition-leader-forced-to-sign-letter-backing-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14994","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Opposition Leader Forced To Sign Letter Backing Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.com\/mundo\/regimen-chavista-edmundo-gonzalez-dice-firmo-coaccion-reconocimiento-victoria-nicolas-maduro-venezuela_0_zRx7kaevFi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a>&nbsp;the regime forced him to sign a letter recognizing Nicol\u00e1s Maduro as the winner of July&#8217;s disputed presidential election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Either I signed or I would face consequences,&#8221; Gonz\u00e1lez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DAEQPIasK_J\/?igsh=MnQ4cmxic2VzaHd4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>&nbsp;in a video posted to social media. &#8220;There were very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure.&#8221; The letter, according to Gonz\u00e1lez, was a condition for his escape to Spain, where he arrived on Sunday after weeks in hiding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0zCBXgQh5g\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/09\/19\/venezuela-opposition-leader-forced-to-sign-letter-backing-maduro\/\">Venezuela Opposition Leader Forced To Sign Letter Backing Maduro<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Venezuela Opposition Leader Forced To Sign Letter Backing Maduro&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/09\/19\/venezuela-opposition-leader-forced-to-sign-letter-backing-maduro\/embed\/#?secret=soXJ6HyUlZ#?secret=0zCBXgQh5g\" data-secret=\"0zCBXgQh5g\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez claims the regime forced him to sign a letter recognizing Nicol\u00e1s Maduro as the winner of July&#8217;s disputed presidential election.<br \/>\n&#8220;Either I signed or I would face consequences,&#8221; Gonz\u00e1lez explained in a video posted to social media. &#8220;There were very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure.&#8221; The letter, according to Gonz\u00e1lez, was a condition for his escape to Spain, where he arrived on Sunday after weeks in hiding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/09\/19\/venezuela-opposition-leader-forced-to-sign-letter-backing-maduro\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,660,372,741],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-election","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14995,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions\/14995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}