The EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell described Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela as “dictatorial” and “authoritarian” on Sunday, alluding to these compelled to flee the nation, together with the opposition chief whom Madrid granted asylum final week.
Borrell commented on Maduro’s regime in an unique interview with Spanish non-public tv station Telecinco, broadcast on Sunday.
“Let’s not idiot ourselves in regards to the nature of issues. Venezuela has known as elections, nevertheless it was not a democracy earlier than, and it’s a lot much less so after”, Borrell added, reported EFE.
Particularly, Borrell highlighted the truth that opposition chief Edmundo González Urrutia and “seven million Venezuelans” have needed to flee the nation and the “thousand restrictions” to which political events are subjected.
“What do you name all this? Effectively, after all, it is a dictatorial, authoritarian, dictatorial regime,” the chief diplomat added.
Borrell’s feedback come as relations between Madrid and Caracas have reached boiling level, particularly after Maduro’s regime introduced on Saturday (14 September) the arrest of two Spanish residents, three People and a Czech nationwide, accused of collaborating in a plot to commit “terrorist” acts in Venezuela, together with the tried “assassination” of Maduro.
In the meantime, sources within the Spanish Overseas Ministry denied on Sunday (15 September) that the 2 Basque vacationers had any reference to the Spanish secret providers (CNI).
[Edited by Daniel Eck]
