Yván Gil accuses Borrell of trying to “lie and harm” Venezuela after the announcement of possible sanctions

MADRID 19 Nov. () –

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yván Gil, has accused this Tuesday the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, who is expected to leave office once the new European Commission of Úrsula von der Leyen takes office, of having spent five years “trying to lie and harm Venezuela.”

“Borrell is leaving the EU, after five years trying to lie and harm Venezuela, inspired by his old colonialist thinking,” he declared in a message published on his Telegram channel.

The minister has criticized that the head of European diplomacy has exercised his mandate “by threatening the Venezuelan people to apply sanctions and ignoring (their) democracy”, which he said, “gives quite a few lessons to ancient Europe.”

These words come after the High Representative announced this Monday from Brussels that the European bloc will study sanctions against the regime of Nicolás Maduro due to the deterioration of the situation in Venezuela and after considering that he is not the elected president because “he has not won the elections”.

“We do not recognize its legitimacy and we will continue to support the people of Venezuela in their democratic struggle,” Borrell stated at a press conference after the meeting of foreign ministers of the 27.

“Failure after failure! A mandate ends today with more lies about our country, self-conscious about its defeats, the historical ones against the European empire and the recent ones inflicted by the Bolivarian Revolution,” responded the Venezuelan Foreign Minister.