The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yván Gil, asserted that the leader of the Spanish right Alberto Núñez Feijóo “borders on ridiculousness with the outdated speech” that Spain came to America to establish freedom and democracy.
This was emphasized by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister in his Telegram accountdetailing that the followers of the president of the Popular Party (PP) “could be prey to that ignorance and believe that the colony was a fun period and had nothing to do with the inquisition and the looting of pearls, gold and silver and many others. resources”.
“You don’t realize that the Spanish Empire was expelled by an army of barefoot and ragged llaneros, that during the war of independence almost half of the Venezuelan population offered their lives for independence from a criminal and genocidal empire,” Gil argued. .
It showed Feijóo’s ignorance of history, which also reflects the lack of knowledge of Venezuelan reality, “supporting violent solutions for a ‘regime change’, recognizing parallel governments that are puppets of Western imperialism, repeating the curse of Malinche with an oligarchy.” “Venezuelan who has dedicated herself to waging economic war on the people and cutting off their right to live in peace.”
