Venezuelan opposition politician Lopez to arrive in Spain on Sunday: sources


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  • Sunday, 25 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez talks to the media at the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Venezuela May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

MADRID (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez will arrive in Spain on Sunday, after spending the past year at the Spanish ambassador's residence in Venezuela to escape house arrest, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Lopez's party, Popular Will, did not say how he left Venezuela, but two people familiar with the matter said he travelled via Colombia.

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