⁍ Leopoldo Lopez arrived in Madrid on Sunday, Spain’s foreign ministry said.
⁍ Lopez, in a series of tweets earlier, said he had left Venezuela.
⁍ He pledged to continue helping the political opposition from exile.
– Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has fled Venezuela and is holed up at the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Madrid, Spain’s foreign ministry says. The ministry says Lopez, who has been under house arrest since 2017, arrived in the Spanish capital on Sunday, Reuters reports. The ministry says Lopez’s decision to leave the Spanish embassy in Venezuela was “personal and voluntary.” The Venezuelan government accuses Spain of aiding the “illegal escape of a dangerous criminal” and says it will investigate the “crimes committed.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-spain-lopez/venezuelan-opposition-politician-lopez-arrives-in-madrid-spain-says-idUSKBN27A0AE