A day after escaping from house arrest and slipping out of his country, a Venezuelan opposition leader arrived in Spain on Saturday and met with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

“I am going to dedicate myself to traveling the world, to spread the hope of all Venezuelans to escape this regime, this dictatorship,” the opposition leader, Antonio Ledezma, declared. “Venezuela isn’t on the verge of an abyss — it has fallen into the abyss.”

Mr. Ledezma, who had been under house arrest in Caracas on sedition charges since 2016, managed to evade his captors on Friday morning and flee to neighboring Colombia.

His flight from Bogotá landed at Barajas airport in Madrid, where, a Venezuelan flag draped over his shoulders, he hugged his wife and two daughters, who had left Venezuela earlier.