Felipe González in charge of the coupist lobby of the Bogotá-Madrid axis

The ex-president of Spain Felipe González will participate as international consultant in the defense team of jailed opposition leaders Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo López.

President Maduro yesterday accused González of being part of “Bogotá-Madrid axis (…) for intervening Venezuela.” He also accused him of “coordinating the coupist lobby in Venezuela.”

Maduro claimed that Felipe González is “receiving a good salary, in Euros, for getting involved in the campaign in favor of the coupists.” As evidence of this involvement Maduro argued that the Spanish ex-president had received Colombian citizenship in 2014.

Coordinating the “Bogotá-Caracas axis” is, according to Maduro, the political consultant J.J. Rondón. Recent rumors in Venezuela that children are being abducted and murdered for organs trafficking were attributed by Maduro to a “psychological campaign” designed by Rondón with the aim of destabilizing the country.

The source for this claim seems to be a comment also made yesterday by National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello: “there is a rumor around about children being abducted and their organ stolen, it is a campaign [matriz] that is out on the streets and has been created by perverse minds, and I am sure that J.J. Rondón is behind this, and his local lackeys who are being paid to do this job.”