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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, July 29, 2024, p. 25

Caracas. I apologize because in Spain, Mexico and Panama they were upset with Venezuela because we sent those people back. I apologize for having sent (Vicente) Fox back to Mexico, Mireya Moscoso back to Panama, people were very angry in Panama and Spain.declared President Nicolás Maduro the day before yesterday, in a mocking tone, during a meeting with international observers invited by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

Venezuelan authorities on Friday prevented the entry of several former governors, deputies and parliamentarians who planned to observe the elections called by the anti-Chavez opposition.

They were not invited by the CNE to witness the contest, it was clarified.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said that Venezuela prevented the takeoff of a Copa Airlines flight that was to transport Fox, Moscoso, and former presidents Miguel Ángel Rodríguez of Costa Rica and Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia, members of the ultra-right Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group) and strong critics of Maduro, from Panama to Venezuela.

About 10 members of parliament and MEPs from the Spanish Popular Party said they had been deported. The same happened to a legislator from Colombia and another from Ecuador.