THE Arrest of two Spaniards and a Czech citizen by the drug dictatorship of Nicolas Madurowhom he accuses of espionage and participation in a plot against the Venezuelan regime, places the tyrant in a delicate position by extending his diplomatic aggression to the whole of the European UnionMoncloa has categorically denied that the two detained Spaniards are CNI agents.
The EU institutional framework includes mechanisms for mutual response in the event of a violation of international law by a third party against a member state of the Union or its citizens. There is therefore an example of common EU diplomacy. This is the Common Security and Defence Policyin force since 2009, headed by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, a position held by the Spanish since December 2019 Joseph Borrell.
Maduro’s measure against three EU citizens increases the international burden on the dictator, to whom Borrell himself recognized this status this Sunday.
“Let’s not be mistaken about the nature of things: Venezuela called elections, but it was not a democracy before and it is even less so after,” Josep Borrell said in an interview with Informativos Telecinco in which, to be even clearer, he defined Maduro’s regime as “dictatorial.”
The position expressed by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy comes on the eve of the approval by the European Parliament of a resolution against the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. The initiative will be debated and voted on at a session of the European Parliament requested by the groups of the European People’s Party, Socialists and Democrats, Patriots and Renew Europe.
Debate in the European Parliament
Despite some differences in nuances, the position shared by the resolution proposals of these parties of the European parliamentary arc is the condemnation of Maduro’s pucherazo and that it be recognized that the winner, and therefore the elected president, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiawho had to seek asylum in Spain due to the repression carried out against him by Maduro.
In the absence of approval of this resolution by the European Parliament, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has already expressed a firm and unreserved position against the Venezuelan dictatorship, with a striking clarity and largely new for EU leaders. regarding the Maduro regime. It must be taken into account that Borrell is at the same time Vice-President of the European Commission; that is, the number two in the executive of the European Union.
In statements released this Sunday, Borrell referred to the “seven million Venezuelans who have fled their country” and the “thousand repressive limitations” to which the political opposition in Venezuela is subjected. “This is, of course, a dictatorial and authoritarian regime,” Josep Borrell stressed.
