Cabello called Borrell stupid after statements about Venezuela

The Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, called the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs “stupid” this Wednesday. Josep Borrell, who said that the EU maintains “its rejection of the recognition” of Nicolás Maduro as president re-elected in the elections of July 28.

«Borrell, this year, if they chose the stupid of the year in the world, you would surely be among the top three“And be careful if you earn it, be careful if you earn it, because you deserve it, because you have to be very stupid like Borrell to believe that your opinion matters to us,” Cabello said.

In his weekly program ‘With the hammer giving’, broadcast on the state channel VTV, the also first vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) urged the head of European diplomacy to put “his tongue in his shirt pocket” and do “with it whatever I want.”

On Monday, the EU addressed the situation in Venezuela in a meeting and, according to Borrell, reaffirmed its “unity” in not recognizing Maduro as “a democratically elected president” in the elections, whose official result – still unknown in a disaggregated form – It is pointed out as fraudulent by the majority opposition, which insists that the winner was Edmundo González Urrutia, in Spain since September.

«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.

Likewise, Borrell assured that the community bloc 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.”

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, expressed on Monday that Borrell spent five years of his mandate trying to “harm” the Caribbean nation and that he ends his work “with more lies” about Venezuela, “complexed by its defeats, the historical ones against the European empire and the recent ones inflicted by the Bolivarian revolution.”