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"Six years later, I am neither defeated nor alone." PP MEP Leopoldo López , father of the repressed Venezuelan opposition leader - currently under house arrest - made an allegation in defense of freedom on Thursday afternoon as a means to defeat the Chavez dictatorship in Venezuela during the presentation of the book When you have a child , he gathers his articles written between 2014 and 2018.

Precisely, it is now six years since Leopoldo López (son) was arrested by the Chavista regime. The EU considers him a political prisoner and the prosecutor in charge of the case, Franklin Nieves , fled to the US and declared that the trial was "a farce," while the judge who signed his arrest warrant said he did it "frightened."

Visibly excited, López (father) said at the XXI Century Club in Madrid that his writings "underline" his "unalterable conviction that Venezuela will once again have a democracy", and hopes that they will encourage young people who, very much their " regret ", they have not been able to enjoy freedom in their country. To them he directs the epilogue of the book.

"Although Leopoldo is still deprived of liberties, I have met in Madrid with some of my dearest companions, who are also in exile," said the father of the opposition leader, for whom the heat he has found in Spain among the "defenders of freedom "has minimized your pain.

And that shows him that Venezuela is not an "excuse" or "an issue that does not interest", as "some government leaders and spokespersons" say, referring to Vice President Carmen Calvo, who said that the issue did not interest "anyone ".

The president of the PP, Pablo Casado, who signed the father of the Venezuelan opponent for the 2019 European elections, took advantage of the presentation of the book to charge against the Spanish government's policy on Venezuela.

"Now that a judge has found evidence of crime" in the Delcy case , "we will demand possible responsibilities beyond politics," he said. "The ministers of Podemos, sooner rather than later, will discover the nature of their links with Latin American dictatorships," he said.

"[Pedro] Sánchez does not even deign to receive Juan Guaidó and allows the number two of the regime to walk around the airport jumping to the bullfighter" the prohibitions that weigh on it.

This plot, in his opinion, "nobody can hide it with no campaign of lies." And "it shows a Government without credibility" that has "baffled all our partners" and "strives to damage our relations with the US."

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