Venezuela recalls its ambassador to Spain for consultation after interfering declarations

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The government of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, summoned this Thursday its ambassador to Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, for consultation due to recent statements made by the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles.  teleSUR

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00:00The government of Nicolás Maduro called on Thursday for consultation its ambassador to Spain

00:05due to recent statements made by the Spanish Minister of Defense Margarita Robles.

00:10Robles discredited the government of President Maduro by calling it a dictatorship

00:14while showing her partiality with the self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia.

00:21Venezuelan Foreign Minister Iván Gil described as insolent, interfering and rude

00:26the expressions made by Minister Robles.

00:29In view of this situation, the Venezuelan government has decided to recall the Venezuelan ambassador

00:34to the Kingdom of Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, for consultations.

00:38In this context, the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,

00:42requested the rupture of relations with the European nation.

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