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Opposition candidate Edmundo González has left Venezuela for Spain six weeks after a disputed presidential election marred by accusations of widespread voter fraud and repression. González, recognized as the true winner of the July 28 election by the United States and a score of Latin American countries, had been staying in Spain’s embassy in Caracas for days and asked the EU country for asylum, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said late Saturday. She said the government had granted the 75-year-old former diplomat safe passage to Spain “in the interests of the country’s political peac…

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