Venezuela gave its approval for Eber Da Rosa to be the ambassador of Uruguay in the country

The proposal arrived weeks ago at the Uruguayan embassy in CaracasAs reported The Observer on November 11. After the endorsement of the government of Nicolás Maduro, the Executive Branch will send the bill to Parliament requesting permission.

The President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, had been pointed out about whether to designate an ambassador in Venezuela reflected a change in position regarding the government there. The president downplayed the decision and stated that “it is clear that it is a dictatorship“. “If Maduro doesn’t change, I’m not going to change my mind,” he explained.

After these statements The number two of Chavismo criticized Lacalle Pou. “You don’t understand that president. He doesn’t understand it, because he appoints an ambassador and then comes out saying that Nicolás (Maduro) is a dictator,” said the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello.

So far, the representative in Venezuela is the business manager Carlos Bentancour: a career civil servant who took office in March of this year and who will reach retirement age in the Foreign Service in March 2023. Before, the diplomat Veronica Ramirez was like interim head of mission since September 2020 because Gustavo Pacheco – who had been appointed by the Broad Front in 2019– returned to Montevideo.