The European Union warned that the expulsion of its ambassador by the Maduro regime “will do nothing but isolate Venezuela internationally”.

The European Union asked Maduro’s regime on Wednesday undo the expulsion of its ambassador to Venezuela, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, and warned that failing to do so will “ only isolate ” the country on an international level.

The European Union deeply regrets this decisionHe added in a statement to the agency EFE the spokesman for the European External Action Service, Nabila Massarili.

Venezuela will overcome its current crisis only through negotiations and dialogue, to which the EU is fully committedHe added. But he clarified that the deportation ‘undermines’ that willingness to cooperate.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Maduro regime gave Brilhante 72 hours to leave the Caribbean country, in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on the 19 officials of the dictatorship by February 22. “Serious violations of human rights” and “undermining of democracy”

“By decision of President Nicolás Maduro, we left it to Ms Isabelle Brilhante, who in recent years was the head of the European Union’s delegation in Venezuela, the statement if a person is not welcome, ”said Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza at a press conference.

The day before, the National Assembly had approved and proposed a “rejection agreement” against the sanctions to “urge” the executive to expel the diplomat.

Specifically, the sanctions relate to asset freeze and travel ban for those affectedIt affects the police commander, among others Remigio Ceballos; the Governor of the State of Zulia, Omar José Prieto; the president of the National Electoral Council, Indira Alfonzo, and two deputies of the National Assembly.

With this, The number of Venezuelans subject to EU sanctions rises to 55. The list includes the vice president Delcy Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello, number two of the dictator Maduro.

The measures were implemented in response to the December 6 parliamentary elections, boycotted and classified as fraud by the major opposition political parties and unknown by the United States, the European Union and several Latin American countries.

This is the second time that the regime has ordered the deportation of Brilhante. The first took place in June 2020, but it was then that Caracas overturned the decision advocating the need to maintain diplomatic relations

This time, Arreaza said that the regime “all efforts to stabilize democratic coexistence in the country ‘but that the sanctions’ are unacceptablePresident Maduro was generous when he allowed the heads of missions and missions to stay in Venezuela, even from the countries of the European Union, when they ignored him in February 2019, ” he said, referring to the 2019 elections which also became fraudulent. considered by the vast majority of the international community and which resulted in the appointment of Juan Guaidó as interim president.

Julio Borges, Presidential Foreign Relations Commissioner of the Guaidó government, said the regime’s decision “it will only further isolate Maduro and receive a strong rejection of the free world“International democratic pressure is a response to the destruction of freedoms in the country, to the attempt to prevent free elections. It will not stop until democracy is restored,” he said.

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