Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced Thursday his decision to summon the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Ramón Santos Martínez, and summon his diplomatic representative in Spain for consultationsGladys Gutiérrez, in response to the “insolent, intrusive and rude” statements of the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, who called Nicolas Maduro’s government a “dictatorship”.
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in the face of the insolent, intrusive and crude statements of the Spanish Minister Margarita Robles, which demonstrate a deterioration in relations between the two countries, decided to summon the Venezuelan ambassador for consultations accredited to the Kingdom of Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez,” reads a statement from Gil published on his Facebook social network account.
Gil also indicated that the Spanish ambassador must appear this Friday at the headquarters of the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs. Maduro’s executive, Gil explains, has also called for consultation its ambassador accredited to Spain, without specifying whether the appointment is for the same date as Santos you have to go to the Chancellery or elsewhere.
Robles made these statements during his speech at the presentation of Julia Navarro’s novel “The Boy Who Lost the War,” where he also reminded all Venezuelan men and women who “They had to leave their country“. He also criticized the “persecution” and “limitation of fundamental rights” that, according to him, opponents suffer in the South American nation.
Robles said, after the arrival in Spain of the abandoned member of the largest Venezuelan opposition coalition, Edmundo González Urrutia, where he requested asylum because he was suffering political and judicial persecution in Venezuela, that what the government of the Caribbean country is doing with “many” anti-Chavistas is “unacceptable and unaffordable”“.
