Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled to Madrid over the weekend requesting asylum, as tensions mounted between Caracas and its former colonial ruler.
The meeting cane just hours after the head of Venezuela's parliament called for the suspension of ties with Madrid after Spanish lawmakers approved a non-binding motion urging Sanchez's government to recognise Gonzalez Urrutia as the "legitimate winner" of a July presidential election that gave strongman Nicolas Maduro a third six-year term.
