By Deutsche Welle
Sep 13, 2024, 02:11 AM EDT
The Venezuelan government has called the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Ramón Santos, for consultations in response to what it considered “insolent, interventionist and rude statements” by the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, who criticized the “persecution” and “limitation of fundamental rights” that the Venezuelan opposition is suffering in her opinion.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil said on his Telegram channel that the ambassador must appear at the Foreign Ministry on Friday at the request of the Chavista Executive, which considers that Robles’ statements “point to a deterioration of relations between both countries.”
Gil announced that the Maduro government had also called its ambassador in Madrid, Gladys Gutiérrez, for consultations.
“Unacceptable and unaffordable”
Following the arrival of former opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia in Spain, where he has requested asylum, Robles said that what the government of the Caribbean country is doing with “so many” anti-Chavez supporters is “unacceptable and unacceptable.”
On Wednesday, Venezuela’s Chavista-controlled parliament proposed a resolution urging Maduro to break “all diplomatic, consular, economic and commercial relations” with Spain.
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The opposition leader, who arrived in Madrid on Sunday, requested asylum due to the “persecution” he said he suffered after the presidential elections of July 28, whose official victory was awarded to Maduro by the electoral court and later validated by the Supreme Court of Justice.
However, the opposition insists that the winner was González Urrutia, based on the “83.5% of the electoral records” that it claims to have collected from witnesses and members of the polling station on voting day, which would give the anti-Chavez candidate the victory by a wide margin.
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