(CNN Spanish) – The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, spoke by telephone this Friday with the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, the UN reported in a statement.
“The secretary general expressed concern about reports of post-election violence and human rights violations. “He emphasized the need to resolve any political dispute peacefully, through genuine and inclusive dialogue,” the statement said, adding that Guterres “also took note of the Venezuelan president’s positions on the situation.”
The conversation was confirmed by the Venezuelan authorities who, in turn, released a statement in which they mentioned that Maduro spoke about the alleged “destabilization attempts” that occurred after the presidential elections of July 28.
The dialogue between Maduro and Guterres occurs after the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, released audios that, he said, prove that the opposition candidate Edmundo González accepted the results of the July 28 elections without having been pressured. .
González maintains that he was coerced to sign the document that Jorge Rodríguez and his sister, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, brought him. González’s lawyer, José Vicente Haro, described the dissemination of these recordings as “an ambush.”
The majority Venezuelan opposition maintains that González, who left for Spain after receiving political asylum, is really the country’s elected president, based on tens of thousands of copies of records collected by opposition witnesses at the polling stations. The Maduro government maintains that these are false, but, almost two months before the elections, the National Electoral Council has not published the results by table and voting center.
