The Chavista regime of Nicolas Maduro has decided to summon its Venezuelan ambassador to Spain for consultations, Gladys Gutierrezafter the Spanish Minister of Defense, Marguerite Robleswould be considered as “dictatorship” to the Venezuelan government. The call for consultations is, in diplomacy, a temporary withdrawal of the ambassador, a preliminary step to a definitive withdrawal and the breaking off of relations, in the case of Venezuela with Spain.
The call for consultations by the Venezuelan ambassador to Spain was announced in the early hours of this Friday by the Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Relations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yvan Gil. He made it public through a message on his channel. Telegram in which he assures that “the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, before the insolent, intrusive and rude The statements of the Spanish Minister Margarita Robles, who report a deterioration in relations between the two countries, have decided call the accredited ambassador of Venezuela for consultations before the Kingdom of Spain, Gladys Gutierrez; at the same time summoned the Spanish ambassador accredited to Caracas, Ramón Santos Martínezto appear on Friday, September 13, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Relations.
The escalation of diplomatic tensions since the president-elect of the Caribbean country, Edmundo González, requested asylum in Spain last Sunday, has intensified in the last hours since the Congress of Deputies approved the declaration of Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela on the proposal of the PP.
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, in a furious speech, declared “war on the Spanish empire” on Thursday night, which did not please the Spanish authorities. The first to mention Venezuela’s attacks on Spain was Minister Robles, who sent a “I remember the men and women of Venezuela who had to leave their country, precisely for the dictatorship they live under“.
Margarita Robles also mentioned the opponent Edmundo González, who is in Spain after leaving Venezuela after requesting political asylum in Spain. Specifically, Pedro Sánchez was recorded this Thursday walking through the gardens of La Moncloa with the winner of the elections in Venezuela, Edmundo González. The president of the government received the opponent of Nicolas Maduro a few hours after refusing in the Congress of Deputies to recognize him as elected president of Venezuela.
The diet of Nicolas Maduro protested against the approval by the Congress of Deputies of the recognition initiative Edmundo Gonzalez elected from Venezuela, with a vote against the PSOE. The Venezuelan AssemblyThe , in the hands of the Chavistas, reacted in the mouths of the deputies loyal to Maduro, calling the initiative of the PP a declaration of “war”. Spain was even called a “colonial power in decline” and calls were made to “confront the Spanish empire 200 years later” and break off all diplomatic and commercial relations.
“Venezuela finds itself once again facing the Spanish empire 200 years later,” said MP Juan Romero (PSUV/Zulia) after the debate in the National Assembly where they voted to unanimously reject “the interference of the extreme right of the Spanish Congress,” ignoring the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 elections.
According to Romero, “the imperialist actions of the Spanish extreme right against Venezuela are repeated.” In addition, he stressed that “historically, Venezuela has defended its right to self-determination of peoples and respect for sovereignty.”
