“It is a dictatorial, authoritarian and dictatorial regime.” So The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, spokethis Sunday on Telecinco, the day after the arrest of five foreigners in Venezuela, including two Spaniards, accused of having participated in “a mercenary operation aimed at destabilizing” the country.
Borrell used that language this Sunday, 48 hours after avoiding the term “dictatorship” during an appearance last Friday in Madrid. “I am not going to comment on the statements of the ministers of a country, no matter how much they are mine,” Borrell responded Friday to questions about statements by Defense Minister Margarita Robles in which she called Venezuela a “dictatorship,” to which Caracas responded with a call for consultations with its ambassador in Madrid.