Edmundo González announced on Friday through his social networks that he will not be able to accompany María Corina Machado in her meeting with Venezuelans this Saturday at Puerta del Sol as he is hospitalized.
"As always, I want to speak to you with the truth. I will not be able to join you. I have been hospitalized for a few days - following up on the surgery from a month ago - and I had not announced it before because I wanted to wait for María Corina to arrive in Madrid. Today we met and talked at length, there is much to coordinate and we are doing it. This moment is yours, the meeting is yours with all Venezuelans, and it should be that way. I confess that I waited until the last moment with the hope of being able to be present, but reality prevents me," he explained on his Instagram and X accounts alongside a photo with the opposition leader in a hospital bed.
Machado begins an intense tour in Spain today where she will meet with various political figures in our country. The most anticipated event is the meeting tomorrow at Puerta del Sol with the Venezuelan diaspora. A massive turnout is expected at the Madrid location. "What matters is that I will continue to follow you from where I am, attentive to every word and every image that comes, like many Venezuelans", he continued. "Her tour is proof that Venezuela is still standing, that people are moving, organizing, and meeting even thousands of kilometers away from home, in cities that we have made our own, which have welcomed us with a generosity that we carry in our hearts," he wrote, thanking the support of the thousands of Venezuelans in the diaspora.
This Saturday, González was also going to be awarded, by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, with the International Medal of the Community of Madrid. The Venezuelan diplomat thanked this gesture on Wednesday afternoon through another post on X. "I receive it on behalf of Venezuelans who, inside and outside the country, continue to defend freedom and democracy," he concluded. However, he will also not be able to receive it in person.
Despite his absence, he wanted to encourage the more than 200,000 Venezuelans in Madrid to repeat the scenes experienced in cities like Santiago de Chile, where she was welcomed by a multitude of exiles. "Every time we gather like this - the Venezuelan way - in Madrid, in Miami, in Santiago, in any city that has lent us a piece of land, we get a little closer to the day when we make the return trip. The one we all have pending. The one to return to Venezuela."
A return to the homeland that many Venezuelans hope for, if only to be able to see their families again.
"To all who can make it on Saturday, I invite you to do so. Go for those of us who can't, go for those who are there waiting for us at home," Edmundo González, elected president in the electoral fraud of June 28, concluded.