Diosdado Cabello: Borrell is a discredited politician in Europe
The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, affirmed this Wednesday that the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, is a “discredited” politician, after the Spanish official said that The solution to the Venezuelan crisis must arise from “international pressure.”
«There is hardly a politician in Europe more discredited than Borrell, well it is likely that Felipe González is fighting with him, they are of the same ilk, Felipe González, (José María) Aznar, Borrell, They are from the garbage dump of history so that they are giving their opinion about Venezuela“Cabello said on his television show ‘Con el Mazo Dando’.
On Tuesday, Borrell told EFE that the solution to the crisis in Venezuela can only be “political” and has to arise “from international pressure.”
«The solution to Venezuela can only be political. It has to arise from international pressure,” Borrell said in a statement after speaking in a debate on the situation in the Middle East in the plenary session of the European Parliament.
The head of European diplomacy stressed that Nicolás Maduro, “apparently, according to his plans,” will take office again next January, based on electoral results from the July 28 elections that most of the community international does not recognize.
«We do not recognize that it has democratic legitimacy. This is what the European Parliament has said, it is not recognized. And the next European Council, which is responsible for foreign policy matters, will say so,” he said.
Borrell was “not very supportive” of possible sanctions against Venezuela that could affect the population.
«I the sanctions, I am not in favor of imposing sanctions that affect the people, that affect the citizens, the Venezuelan people.“, he stated, and gave as an example those that weigh against Cuba and “that have not served to change the political regime”, but “have caused enormous suffering in the Cuban population.”
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