The vice president of the Chavista dictatorship of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, is forbidden your entry into Spainas we all know since in January 2020 he walked for hours through Barajas airport hand in hand with today defenestrated José Luis Ábaloswho was at that time the right arm of the president Pedro Sánchez. In the statement in which the European Union vetoed its entry into the Schengen area, it was stated that Delcy was “responsible for human rights violations and undermine democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela. The Chavista vice president was at the residence of the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela accompanied by her brother, Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, who, like her, is not allowed to enter the United States, but not the European Union.
There, in the residence of our ambassador in Venezuela, which is part of the set of properties that make up the diplomatic representation of Spain in the country, Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge, in the presence of the Spanish ambassador, Ramón Santos, exercised Edmundo González, president-elect of Venezuela, “coercion, blackmail and pressure” for hours, threatening to do so “Either I signed or I suffered the consequences”a document in which the winner of the presidential elections of July 28 falsely recognized Nicolas Maduro’s victorythus renouncing all his rights as elected president of Venezuela. If he had not signed this document, the Chavista tyranny would not have allowed him to leave the country for Spain, where he requested political asylum.
It has not been two weeks since Minister Albares denied the ongoing negotiations we can all see in a video recorded at the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela, in the presence of our ambassador. “There has been no type of political negotiation between the Spanish government and that of Venezuela,” Albares said. In reality, threatening, coercing, blackmailing and pressuring cannot be considered negotiation; or at least, not in a democratic regime of freedoms. But Venezuela has long been on the path to becoming a communist dictatorship where physical threats are part of any negotiation with its tyrannical rulers.
Cinema, television series and even The Simpsons have contributed to spreading the false belief that embassies and, by extension, the official residence of ambassadors, are subject to controls. an ancient extraterritoriality which results in the often repeated error that they are part of the territory they represent, which is not the case. Since the middle of the 18th century, this practice has ended. legal fiction. The Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 and on consular relations, 1967, replace this legal entelechy with the much more practical concepts of inviolability and immunityin force for centuries. No, Delcy Rodriguez did not set foot on Schengen territory when entering our embassy, which does not mean that the actions of the representative of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Venezuela was appropriate.
Although the embassy is not Spanish territory, Delcy Rodríguez continues to be “responsible for human rights violations and attacks on democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela,” as the European Union claims. And regarding her brother Jorge, the United States government claims that he “systematically plunders what remains of Venezuela’s wealth,” making him responsible for the “tragic decline” of this country. A representative of the Spanish government, like the ambassador to Venezuela, allowed, in his presence, two representatives of the Venezuelan dictatorial narco-regime to exercise threats, coercion, blackmail and pressureto the elected president of Venezuela. Since the ambassador was not dismissed, it was Minister Albares who it should have been alreadyif Pedro Sanchez was not another collaborator of the Chavista regime.
