Venezuela’s Gonzalez Says He Was Forced to Sign Letter Accepting Maduro Victory

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González has said he was forced to sign a letter accepting he had lost July’s presidential election to the socialist incumbent, Nicolás Maduro, before he was allowed to leave the country and go into exile in Spain. González, 75, said in a statement on Wednesday, “Either I signed or I faced the consequences.” He said he signed the letter—in which he accepted a ruling from Venezuela’s supreme court, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which recognized Maduro’s victory—under duress, in the Spanish embassy in Caracas. In a video, published on Instagram and X on Wednesday, González said, “They showed up with a document that I would have to sign to allow my departure from the country.”...