The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodrigueznow has carte blanche to enter Spain – as he did illegally when invited by the Sánchez government in 2020 – or to fly over its territory. This is what he did during the night from Monday to Tuesday, when the Airbus A346 of Maduro’s number 2 crossed Spanish airspace towards Caracas, after the tour which led the Chavista leader to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow and with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul. Delcy Rodriguez You no longer have sanctions preventing you from entering European soil: the European Commission has removed them “on a proposal” from Joseph BorrellHigh Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
If Delcy Rodríguez arrived tomorrow at the Barajas executive terminal to meet with a minister of the government of Pedro Sanchezhe found no legal obstacle to setting foot on Spanish soil – in 2020 he had to do it by stealth. He also did not have the opportunity to enter with his brother, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Jorge Rodriguezat the residence of the Spanish Ambassador in Caracas to pressure and coerce President-elect Edmundo González into choosing to accept the Spanish government’s “offer” to leave the country.
The lifting of sanctions against Delcy Rodríguez has gone virtually unnoticed since the European Commission decided last May to modify “Decision (CFSP) 2017/2074 concerning restrictive measures taking into account the situation in Venezuela” – the scenario of sanctions against the Maduro regime by the European Union.
In an attempt to ease these restrictions in order to ease pressure on the Chavista regime as the elections approach, the European Commission, “taking into account the proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy», position still occupied by the socialist Josep Borrell, decided that Delcy Rodríguez be removed from the list of people prohibited from entering EU territory. A list that included Maduro’s number 2 since 2018. His presence there caused controversy over his illegal entry into Barajas four years ago.
The new status of nice person of Delcy in the Union has already been noted this week. On Tuesday, at dawn, the official plane with Maduro’s vice president on board flew over the Iberian Peninsula from east to west and left Portugal towards the Atlantic, towards Venezuela. It came from Türkiye and on its way it also flew over other European countries such as Greece either Italynow completely free of restrictions.
The woman from whom Maduro ordered the operation to pressure Edmundo González to seek political asylum in Madrid is no longer on this list, which includes other Chavismo leaders, such as Attorney General Tarek William Saab Halabi. The man who put Venezuela’s president-elect on the hunt and capture. Socorro Elizabeth Hernández, the president of the National Electoral Council responsible for rigging the 2016 elections, also continues to serve there.
Zapatero’s role
The leader of Vox, Santiago AbascaLast Monday I met with the president-elect of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiato whom he thanked “his fight and his heroism against the tyranny” that he leads Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. He also informed him of the “disturbing role” of the former President of the Government. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as “another piece of equipment from Maduro”. Abascal and González Urrutia met at the Congress of Deputies, where the Venezuelan president was recognized as the winner of the presidential elections held in his country on July 28. It was an initiative promoted by the PP and supported by Vox.
“It is a pleasure to receive in Congress the elected president of Venezuela to whom we convey, as representative of millions of Venezuelans, our gratitude to the Venezuelan people, their struggle and his heroism against the tyranny of Maduro“, said Santiago Abascal in a message posted on social networks after his meeting with Edmundo González. “We hope to see him again soon (in Venezuela) at the head of his own nation,” the Vox leader said in statements to the media. Edmundo González was accompanied by the former mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezmathe president of Foro Madrid, Eduardo Cader; and the spokesperson and project coordinator of Foro Madrid, Edmaly Mauco.
Among the topics discussed in this meeting, Abascal mentioned Zapatero for his “disturbing role as another mechanism for Maduro” and as “member of the Puebla Group”an organization “supported by Hezbollah, Hamas and regimes like Iran and Cuba” and which represents “the worst of humanity”.
“We expressed our concern about the worrying role of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero one more gear in the diet of Maduro, as a member of the Puebla Group. And when we say as a member of the Puebla Group, we say of an organization supported by Iran, by regimes like that of Cuba, that is to say which represents the worst of humanity at this moment “, supported the leader of Vox.
