Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González has been hospitalized in a public health facility in Spain following a sudden episode of low blood pressure.

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez has gone to hospital in Spain after a sudden episode of low blood pressure but is stable, he said on Monday.

Five Venezuelan dissidents who had sought refuge in Argentina’s embassy in Caracas have escaped the country after more than a year in hiding, in what sources described as a covert military operation led by the United States.