The candidate whom many people and some nations—including the US—consider the legitimate winner of Venezuela’s presidential election in July has gone into exile in Spain, a major blow to opposition hopes for removing the authoritarian incumbent he ran against. Edmundo González will be granted political asylum by Spain, the BBC reports, and Nicolás Maduro will be left to serve his third term as president of Venezuela. González, 75, had been in hiding since July 30; an arrest warrant had been issued accusing him of crimes that could have kept him in prison for life, per the Guardian. A Spanish A…