Borrell spent five years trying to harm Venezuela

The Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Yván Gil, assured on Monday that the high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, spent five years of his mandate trying to lie and harm the country.

«“Borrell is leaving the EU, after 5 years trying to lie and harm Venezuela, inspired by his old colonialist thinking,” Gil wrote. in a message published on Telegram.

The chancellor maintained that the European official ends his work with more lies about Venezuela, self-conscious about its defeats, the historical ones against the European empire and the recent ones inflicted by the Bolivarian revolution.

On Monday, Borrell celebrated the release of political prisoners in Venezuela and assured that the EU will continue to demand the freedom of all those who remain imprisoned, especially those who are European citizens.

“The good news is that the authorities of Venezuela, the Maduro government, have today released a significant number of political prisoners,” said the head of European diplomacy in a press conference after the meeting of foreign ministers of the community block.

At their meeting, the Twenty-Seven addressed the political situation in Venezuela and maintained their “unity” in the non-recognition of Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate and democratically elected president of the country, explained Borrell, who has chaired, barring surprise, their last meeting of foreign ministers. of the EU.

«The European Union remains united in its rejection of the recognition of Maduro as a democratically elected president and therefore, denying him the legitimacy that he would have if he had won the elections cleanly,” he indicated.

The head of European diplomacy added that the Twenty-seven “will continue working to review the sanctions system” so that “it is not applied to the people of Venezuela but to its leaders and the government.”