Venezuela, Maduro expels EU ambassador after Brussels sanctions: “Enough colonialism”

L’ultimatum had arrived shortly after sanctions imposed byEuropean Union, which included 11 other top Venezuelan officials – bringing the total to 36 – to the list of people subject to restrictive measures, including travel ban and the freeze of assets, “for their role in acts and decisions that undermine democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela”. Nicolas Maduro decided to expel the Union ambassador to Caracas within 72 hours, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa. A diplomatic choice condemned by the High Representative Josep Borrell who announced “reciprocity measures” and the convocation “of the ambassador of Mature at the institutions European at the service of EU external action “. A “first step”, he said, “and then let’s see what happens in the coming days”.

Maduro against Europe – “We have had enough of European colonialism against Venezuela!” Maduro wrote on Twitter, reiterating what he had said in the evening during the delivery of the National Journalism Award Simon Bolivar. “Who are they to try to impose themselves with them? threats? Enough with the persecution against the Venezuela, with colonialist interventionism, with the suprematism and the racism. If they don’t want to respect the Venezuela – he continued – that if they do go. Venezuela deserves respect before the world. ” Then he added that “theEurope he failed with the runaway from justice Juan Guaidó. And instead of correcting itself, it incurs aggressions against our institutions “. Positions also reaffirmed by his foreign minister Jorge Arreazacontrary to the sanctions ofEuropean Union, which thus “falls within his politics of interference against dialogue and peace in Venezuela. His heritage e reminiscences colonial they lead her to the abyss ofillegality, aggression and persecution of our peoples. The Venezuela – he concluded – reserves a due and strong response “.

The sanctions of Europe – Among the affected personalities are Luis Parra, new president ofNational Assembly (An) elected following the dialogue between the government and a part of the opposition, and the two vice-presidents of the AN, also belonging to the non-radical opposition, Franklyn Leonardo Duarte e Jose Noriega. Their responsibility, according to the EU, was to make possible an undemocratic functioning of the Parliament and to have facilitated the expulsion from the presidency of An Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself in January 2019 as interim president of the Venezuela. Yesterday’s decision brings the total number of people subject to 36 to sanctions, including travel ban and asset freezing.