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Venezuela kicks out head of EU delegation after new sanctions

Published 02/24/2021, 11:23 AM
Updated 02/24/2021, 12:36 PM
© Reuters. The ambassador of the European Union to Venezuela, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, leaves after a meeting at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Caracas

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Wednesday that the head of the European Union's delegation in Caracas had 72 hours to leave the South American country after the bloc imposed new sanctions on Venezuelan officials this week.

In announcing the action against Portuguese national Isabel Brilhante, Arreaza described the sanctions against 19 Venezuelan officials "truly unacceptable."

The sanctions were a response to legislative elections won by President Nicolas Maduro's allies that Venezuela's opposition and many Western democracies deemed fraudulent.

"We are doing this because the circumstances demand it," Arreaza said.

© Reuters. Venezuela's FM Arreaza holds a meeting with ambassadors in Caracas

Venezuela in 2020 walked back a pledge to throw out the EU's representative in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation, a move it had taken in response to a previous round of sanctions.

Latest comments

Who are they to deem the election of a country in south America is fraudulent ? Venezuelans problem they will take care of there affairs .
they did that based on observers you dummy
I agree. They chose socialism and now they are feeling the consequences. It's a lesson for the world on the effects of socialism, it's the most recent of many examples. Any response should be limited to helping the people fleeing, and encouraging individual and private sector activism abroad, by expats for example.
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