The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Joseph Borrelldescribed “dictatorial” and “authoritarian” the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuelareferring to arbitrary arrests or to the fact that the opposition leader, Edmundo Gonzalezhad to flee the country.
He did so in an interview with Telecinco broadcast this Sunday, in which he nevertheless stressed that by affirming that the Venezuelan regime is dictatorial “we don’t fix anything”but it is more about trying to sort things out and that sometimes requires “a certain verbal restraint.” “But let’s not get confused about the nature of things. Venezuela has called elections, but It wasn’t a democracy before and it’s much less so after“, added the head of European diplomacy.
Borrell referred to the arrests, the departure from the country of González, who is in Spain and has requested political asylum in our country, as well as the “thousand limitations” to which political parties are subjected or to which “seven million Venezuelans have been subjected” have fled their country. “What do you call all that? Well, naturally It is a dictatorial and authoritarian regime.“dictatorial,” stressed the head of European diplomacy, who will soon be relieved.
However, he said it does not appear that a ceasefire can take place in the country in the short term. Loopand concerning Ukraineclaimed he had asked ministers to authorise Kyiv uses missiles “within the range necessary to reach the milestones from which they are attacked”, but “there was no agreement”.
