For the second time in a month, the Minister of Defense of Spain, Margarita Robles, described the administration of Nicolás Maduro as a “dictatorship”
The Minister of Defense of Spain, Margarita Robles, ratified her opinion on September 30 that what Nicolás Maduro’s administration is exercising is a “dictatorship” and said that she does not change her position from one day to the next.
“I think I have been asked this question many times. I was at a book presentation the other day and I clearly said what I thought,” Robles responded to the media; and he added that he speaks “quite clear Spanish”, just as he also did “the other day”, he cited EFE.
In mid-September, the head of the Spanish Defense Ministry described the Venezuelan Executive as a “dictatorship” for the first time during an event to present Julia Navarro’s novel ‘The Boy Who Lost the War’, which took place in the Ateneo de Madrid, where the former president of the Government Felipe González, Judge Manuel Marchena and the recently appointed president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Isabel Perelló, among other personalities, attended as attendees.
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In reference to the totalitarianisms that are revealed in Julia Navarro’s novel, the minister has made a point to send a “remembrance to the men and women of Venezuela who have had to leave their country, precisely because of the dictatorship they live in.” which caused applause from those present, then reported Europe Press.
His statements caused the Venezuelan authorities They will summon the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela, Ramón Santos Martínez, to clarify the statements.
Foreign Minister Yván Gil reported the decision on his social networks and added that they will call the Venezuelan ambassador to Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, for consultation.
«The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in the face of the insolent, interfering and rude statements of the Spanish Minister Margarita Robles, which point to a deterioration in relations between both countries, has decided to call the Venezuelan ambassador accredited to the Kingdom for consultations. from Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez; at the same time that he has summoned the Spanish Ambassador accredited in Caracas, Ramón Santos Martínez, to appear on Friday, September 13 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Relations,” Gil indicated.
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