Venezuela summons the Spanish ambassador in Caracas and calls its diplomatic representative in Spain for consultations

Venezuelan Foreign Minister criticises Robles’ “insolent” statements about Venezuelan “dictatorship”

September 13 () –

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced on Thursday his decision to summon the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Ramón Santos Martínez, and to call for consultations his diplomatic representative in Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, in response to the “insolent, interventionist and rude” statements by the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, who has referred to the Government of Nicolás Maduro as a “dictatorship.”

“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in response to the insolent, interventionist and rude statements by the Spanish Minister Margarita Robles, which point to a deterioration in relations between the two countries, has decided to call for consultations the Venezuelan ambassador accredited to the Kingdom of Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez,” reads a statement by Gil published on his Facebook account.

Gil also indicated that the Spanish ambassador will appear at the headquarters of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Relations on Friday.

Robles made these statements during her speech at the presentation of Julia Navarro’s novel ‘The Boy Who Lost the War’, where she also remembered all the Venezuelan men and women who “have had to leave their country.”