Former Venezuelan presidential candidate and opposition leader Edmundo González fled to Spain in exile Sunday as part of a deal with dubious current President Nicolas Maduro’s administration.

But on Sunday, he joined the swelling ranks of once-prominent government opponents who have fled into exile, leaving his political future uncertain and tightening Nicolás Maduro's grip on power.

Maduro seems to have learned to live in a permanent simulacrum mode. He says whatever he wants, however he wants. He says and disavows things in any way, and before any audience.

Over the weekend, Brazilian diplomats accused Spain’s socialist government of allowing Maduro’s political enforcers into the Spanish embassy in Caracas while González took refuge there.

Opposition leaders have argued the detention of politician Juan Pablo Guanipa and others is meant to stifle dissent.

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