Spain woke up this Friday with a new escalation in its diplomatic relations with Venezuela. Everything, they say from this Caribbean country, is due to the statements of the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, in which she called the The “dictatorship” government of Nicolas Maduro“thinking of the exile of millions of people. The immediate effect of these statements was the call consult the Venezuelan ambassador in Madrid and summon the Spanish representative in Caracas.
Some of the measures announced by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil, hours after he reminded all Venezuelans that “they had to leave their country”. The statements made by Robles during his speech this Thursday at the presentation of Julia Navarro’s novel “The Boy Who Lost the War”, which took place at the Ateneo de Madrid, in the presence of the former president of the government Felipe González, among other personalities.
In reference to the totalitarianism revealed in Julia Navarro’s novel, Minister Robles wanted to send a “I remember the men and women of Venezuela who had to leave their country, precisely because of the dictatorship they live under“, which drew applause from those present. In this context, Robles also mentioned the opponent Edmundo González who is in Spain, and that that same Thursday he met Pedro Sánchez in La Moncloa a week after arriving in Spain to request political asylum.
A memory that he also addressed to “all those who must leave their country” victims of violence restrictionof the lack of democracy and the lack of freedom.” These remarks have caused tensions in diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Spain, which have been simmering for Congress will ask the Spanish government to recognize Edmundo González as president-elect.
For the Chavista executive, Robles’ latest statements show a “deterioration of relations between the two countries“This is what the Minister of Foreign Affairs said when announcing that he would receive the Spanish ambassador in Caracas this Friday. But Venezuela’s Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, was much harsher.who harshly accused Spain and Congress.
“They met (about Sánchez and González), the Spanish Congress met. They gave a verdict on the elections in Venezuela.What does the Kingdom of Spain have to do with it?The Spanish Congress with Venezuela’s internal affairs? They think we are a colony“, he argued, full of anger, in a speech this morning. According to him, Spain “considers itself an empire”: “We drove them out of here 300 years ago and we’re going to drive them out again. every time they try to interfere in the internal affairs of Venezuela.”
