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The former president of the Venezuelan parliament, Juan Guaidó, today expressed his solidarity with the ambassador of the European Union (EU), the Portuguese Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, who was ordered by the Venezuelan government to leave the country in 72 hours.
“We sympathize with the EU embassy in Caracas, which has always shown its support for the defense of human rights and democracy in Venezuela, on behalf of Europe,” the main opponent of the Nicolás Maduro regime wrote on his Twitter account. .
Juan Guaidó also affirms that “the pride of the dictator, in the face of the failure of the fraud” of the legislative elections of December 6, 2020, “isolates him more from the world and intends to drag the country with him”, alluding to the President of Venezuela , Nicolás Maduro.
The Venezuelan government today notified the ambassador of the European Union, the Portuguese Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, that she was declared ‘persona non grata’ and must leave the country in the next 72 hours, the executive announced.
The notification was made by Minister Jorge Arreaza during a meeting in Caracas, in which he mentioned that it was a measure in which “I would not like to be involved, but that the circumstances of the aggression leave no other option.”
“The Republic of Venezuela is irrevocably free and independent and bases its moral heritage on its values of freedom, equality, justice and international peace, on the doctrine of the Liberator Simón Bolívar,” he told Venezuelan state television.
The Venezuelan parliament, with a “Chavista” majority, unanimously approved a resolution on Tuesday asking the government of President Nicolás Maduro to declare the ambassador of the European Union (EU) in Caracas ‘persona non grata’.
The approval came after the EU added 19 people to the list of sanctions against Venezuelan government figures, a decision that Caracas says is “erratic” and attributes to the “failure of European interventionist plans.”
The decision to increase the number of those sanctioned was due to the legislative elections that took place in December 2020 in Venezuela and that the EU foreign ministers refused to recognize as “credible, inclusive and transparent.”
With the addition of these 19 people, the sanctions package against Venezuela now targets a total of 55 personalities, who are prohibited from traveling to Europe and their assets frozen in the European space.
It is the second time that Venezuela has declared the representative of the European Union in Venezuela, the Portuguese diplomat Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, as ‘persona non grata’.
On May 29, 2020, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, ordered his expulsion, giving him 72 hours to leave the country.
Nicolás Maduro’s decision was made a few hours after Brussels sanctioned 11 more officials from Caracas.
On July 2, Nicolás Maduro welcomed an agreement between Brussels and Caracas to suspend the expulsion of the diplomat and urged the EU to change its relationship with the South American country.
“[Peço] that the EU enters into another understanding and that there be a profound historical rectification of the role it has played in its relationship with Venezuela, ”said Nicolás Maduro.
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