From El Salvador to Venezuela: Edmundo González’s Controversial Track Record

Opposition Leader, Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia, July 2024 photo: EFE

July 12, 2024 Hour: 11:14 pm

Venezuelan media made public a case in which Erika Carolina González, daughter of the opposition of the far right, was accused by the 4th Prosecutor’s Office.

Edmundo González Urrutia, current candidate of the Venezuelan opposition, faces questions both about his past in El Salvador and a judicial case involving his daughter in Venezuela.

Venezuelan media made public a case in which Erika Carolina González, daughter of the opposition of the far right, was accused by the 4th Prosecutor’s Office. of the Public Prosecutor’s Office because it is linked to multiple serious crimes. These include unlawful deprivation of liberty by public officials, minor intentional personal injury, criminal association and corruption.

The case began in April 2009 when his pre-trial detention was ordered. In October of the same year, he was granted a less burdensome injunction. However, in October 2011, after a preliminary hearing, the measure of deprivation of liberty was ratified and the trial was ordered.

¿Familia de delincuentes?

Erika Carolina González Urrutia, hoy abogada "Carolina González Mata" y viviendo en España, hija de Edmundo González, cayó presa en el año 2009 cuando era policía por CORRUPTA, cuenta la historia que le gustaba extorsionar y golpear a sus víctimas. pic.twitter.com/TspUmSWdlr
— Ernesto Meléndez (@ernestojmro) July 11, 2024

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Family of criminals? Erika Carolina González Urrutia, today a lawyer “Carolina González Mata” and living in Spain, daughter of Edmundo González, fell prisoner in 2009 when she was a police officer for CORRUPT, tells the story that she liked to extort and beat her victims.

In June 2012, the 2nd Tribunal. Trial of the State of Miranda rejected a request to dismiss the measure, arguing that the circumstances that led to the deprivation of liberty had not changed. The case was recorded in a judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice, where González is noted for the crimes mentioned.

Venezuelan opposition candidate questioned for his role in El Salvador

An investigation by Roberto Hugo Preza, teleSUR correspondent in El Salvador, addresses the controversial past of Edmundo Gonzalez. The current candidate of the far-right would have played a questionable role during his time in El Salvador in the 1980s, when he served as a close collaborator of Leopoldo Castillo, then Venezuelan ambassador in San Salvador.

Preza collected testimonies from Salvadoran citizens who claim to have witnessed Gonzalez’s actions during that period. These witnesses suggest that the now presidential candidate was involved in activities that stained “his hands with blood”. In the report, Sigfrido Reyes, a former FMLN leader, states that “Edmundo Gonzalez has this dark past and is directly responsible and co-author of the war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed against innocent and defenseless people”.