Venezuela rejected the EU's ultimatum | "The logic …

The Venezuelan government has expressed its "strongest rejection" of the EU's ultimatum to call elections within eight days, an action linked to "pressure from the US government to United "and describing as a mechanism the" government's own style ". former colonial powers that it represents. "In a statement, the Foreign Ministry denounced the fact that the statement issued yesterday by the bloc demonstrates its" decision to join the coup plan orchestrated by the US government. "

"They must withdraw this ultimatum, no one can do it," said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this morning after Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom set a deadline for the convocation of new elections. Otherwise, they announced that they will recognize the self-proclaimed "president in charge", Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly.

The Foreign Ministry denounced the EU's membership to the "unworthy chorus of satellite governments" of the United States. and he demanded that the bloc "put aside its provocative attitude and instead adopt a position of respect and constructive balance that does not encourage the breakdown of the constitutional order and violence".

"The colonial logic was banished from the Venezuelan homeland two hundred years ago by the Bolivarian liberation effort and this legacy will be defended today," says the document, which states that Venezuela "will continue to maintain a constructive relationship of respect and cooperation with all EU countries, oriented towards shared development and peace both in Venezuela and in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean ".

At the same time, the president made a statement Sunday in an interview with the Turkish TV channel CNN Turk. "Nobody can give us an ultimatum of this type, if someone wants to leave the country, he can do it, Venezuela is not related to Europe, it's a total insolence, "said Maduro.

According to him, "once again, Europe makes a mistake in considering Venezuela as a non-existent history, despite two hundred years of independence".

"We despise ourselves because we are in the south is insolent," said Maduro, who faces since last Wednesday the self-proclaimed interim president of the country's president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, with a majority of the opposition, Juan Guaidó.