Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP.
The Venezuelan government sent a note of protest to the European Union delegation in Caracas against the interference of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in the affairs of the country, the deputy minister for European Affairs of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, Coromoto Godoy, said.
“I handed a note of protest to the head of the European Union delegation, Rachel Roumet, after the ongoing interventionist statements of High Representative Josep Borrell. Venezuela respects itself, we will no longer tolerate interference in our country, the European Union must address its problems, [and] its plans against our democracy have failed as always,” Godoy wrote on X on Tuesday, September 17. Last Sunday, Borrell had called the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a dictatorship and an authoritarian regime.
On Thursday at a public event, Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles described Maduro’s government as a “dictatorship,” claiming that it had caused mass migration from the country. In response to that, Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Spain and summoned the head of the Spanish diplomatic mission in Venezuela. Meanwhile, Venezuelan Parliamentary Speaker Jorge Rodríguez called on lawmakers to pass a resolution to sever diplomatic and trade relations with Spain after the Spanish congress urged the government to recognize former presidential candidate of the far right, Edmundo González, as the president of Venezuela.
(Sputnik)
