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By News Bulletin
TeleSur
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2014

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (Photo: Reuters)

After the “interventionist” remarks of Spain's President, Mariano Rajoy, Venezuela is reviewing its diplomatic relations with Spain.

Venezuela called backed its ambassador to Spain for consultations, in protest over the “interventionist” and “irresponsible” remarks of Spain's President Mariano Rajoy over extreme right-wing leader Leopoldo López.

“As part of the process of reviewing, in full, the diplomatic relations with Spain, and as consequence of the interventionist declarations of Spain's head of government Mariano Rajoy, (Venezuela's government) has decided to call back for consultations Venezuela's ambassador in Spain,” said Venezuela's executive in a statement.

Last week Popular Party leader Rajoy met the wife of Venezuelan rightist leader Leopoldo Lopez last week. Lopez was arrested after his role in a wave of violence in Venezuela that sought to destabilize the government of President Nicolas Maduro, and that left 43 dead and over 1000 injured.

Rajoy expressed concern about the trial of Lopez. He added that Venezuela should respect the right of people to protest in a peaceful way.

In a statement, Venezuelan government said that Rajoy's declarations were “interventionist, irresponsible, and disrespectful.” and remembered that Spain's government also supported the coup against Venezuelan former president Hugo Chávez in 2002.

"He simply does not have the moral authority to talk about Bolivarian Venezuela, Venezuela is to be respected, Mr Rajoy," said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in state television channel, VTV, last week.

"Go and talk about the disaster that you're inflicting on Spain and the Spanish people… You have flagrantly evicted 700,000 Spanish people from their homes, why don't you sort out those problems?" added Maduro, who instructed Venezuela's Foreign Minister, Rafael Ramirez, to review the country's diplomatic ties with Spain.

Rajoy's PP, which has historic ties to ministers in the government of Spanish dictator General Franco, backed the attempted military coup against then Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2002, when PP's José María Aznar was President of Spain.

Source: TeleSur


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