“Delcy, call the Spanish chancellor”

Nicolás Maduro asked his executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, on Tuesday to show the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, the Act of Independence of July 5, 1811 “so that he knows” that the country is and will be independent from Spain and the “whole world”.

“Delcy, call your friend the Spanish foreign minister and explain to him, show him the Act of Independence of July 5 and show him Simon Bolivar’s report on the Battle of Carabobo so that he knows that Venezuela is and will be irremediably free, sovereign, independent of Madrid, Spain and the entire world,” said the head of state, in an event broadcast by the state channel VTV.

On Monday, the Spanish government rejected that there was a “counterpart” or “political negotiation” with Caracas for the departure of the former presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, exiled since Sunday in Madrid, and insisted on demanding the publication of the minutes of the elections of July 28, in which Maduro was declared the winner based on results that are still unknown in a disaggregated form.

Meanwhile, Rodríguez insists that there were “extensive conversations” with Spain to organize González Urrutia’s departure, as well as the landing of a Spanish Air Force plane in which the opposition leader traveled to Madrid.

In this regard, Albares admitted that there were “contacts” so that, “logically, a Spanish Air Force plane could land in Caracas,” but reiterated the refusal of a “negotiation” that would entail some kind of “counterpart.”

The Spanish Congress debated on Tuesday a non-binding motion, presented by the Popular Party (PP), which calls for Pedro Sánchez’s government to recognise González Urrutia as “president-elect”, and which will be voted on this Wednesday.

Maduro called the PP and Vox, respectively, “trash” and “ultra-trash”, which, according to the Chavista, have “a colonialist concept of America”.