Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected out of hand the offer from the newly minted Panamanian president to escape from the dire and raucous situation he finds himself in.
via Reuters:
PANAMA CITY, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gave a scathing response to an offer on Friday from his Panamanian counterpart, Jose Raul Mulino, to facilitate his departure to a third country to allow for a political transition.
Mulino told broadcaster CNN he would give Maduro safe passage to act as a “bridge” to a third country, in the aftermath of a July 28 election Maduro says he won but independent pollsters claim as an opposition landslide.
“If that’s the contribution, the sacrifice that Panama has to make, by offering our soil so that this man and his family can leave Venezuela, Panama would do it without a doubt,” Mulino said in an interview.
The reply from Caracas was…
