MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Venezuelan government sent a note of protest to the EU delegation in Caracas against the interference of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in the affairs of the Latin American country, the Vice Minister for European Affairs of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, Coromoto Godoy, said.
On Sunday, Borrell called the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a dictatorship and authoritarian regime.
On Thursday, Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles described at a public event Maduro’s government as a «dictatorship,» claiming that it had caused mass migration from the Latin American country. In response to that, Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Spain and summoned the head of the Spanish diplomatic mission in Venezuela. Meanwhile, Venezuelan parliamentary speaker Jorge Rodriguez called on lawmakers to pass a resolution to immediately sever diplomatic and trade relations with Spain after the Spanish congress urged the government to recognize former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the Venezuelan president.
