The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, gave the ambassador of the European Union (EU), Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, 72 hours to leave the country, due to the interventionist actions by this financial organization:
«I give the European Union ambassador 72 hours to leave Caracas: Go away. Enough of colonialist supremacism. Enough already. You will be loaned an airplane to leave the country. If you don’t love us, if you don’t respect Venezuela, then leave”, said the Venezuelan head of state from Miraflores Palace in Caracas.
In statements broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, the National President detailed that EU officials met on Monday to analyze the situation in Venezuela and sanction various Venezuelans from institutions in the country, including the board of directors of the National Assembly in contempt, chaired by the opposition’s Luis Parra.
“They came up with a resolution where the supreme European Union sanctioned those Venezuelans, from state institutions that defend the constitution, a group of generals, constituents and the opposition National Assembly, because they do not kneel to Donald Trump”, assured the Venezuelan president. during the awarding act of the National Journalism Award – 2020.
Likewise, he demanded respect from the 27 countries that make the EU, which has sanctioned more than 30 public officials in the country.
“We are going to sort our things out with the European Union, if they do not love us then may they leave. If they do not respect Venezuela, then go away, Venezuela is to be respected, as a nation, as an institution”, emphasized President Maduro.
During the activity, President Nicolás Maduro made reference to the situation with the Spanish embassy, where is sheltered the fugitive from justice, Leopoldo López; and their participation in the paramilitary raid of May 3, which aimed to carry out a coup d’état and to assassinate the President of the Republic and other members of the Nation’s High Political and Military Command.
“The Spanish ambassador served as an accomplice in the plan to assassinate me, to assassinate the political, military high command and an armed incursion to impose a coup d’etat”, he stressed.
In this situation, the National President emphasized that Venezuela “reserves diplomatic actions on the Spanish ambassador for his participation in the armed incursion in Macuto, and the actions of Leopoldo López”.
Last Friday, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal revealed that the fugitive from Venezuelan justice, Leopoldo López, was for months in charge of hiring mercenaries in order to overthrow the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
According to the newspaper, López – author of the La Salida coup plan in 2014 – considered approximately six proposals by mercenaries and contractors, who would execute different military incursions and provoke a possible rebellion within the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and thus succeed in overthrowing the chief of the Venezuelan State.
After the publication, the Minister for Communication and Information, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced that all the planning elements that led to the armed military incursion into Venezuela were devised at the headquarters of the residence of the Government of Spain.
