Venezuela: Spain warns against "American military escalation"

MADRID –

Spain

showed today his
official concern about the risk of a "military escalation"

Venezuela

before "news to be confirmed" about the presence of troops of

United States

in the
border with Colombia.

"We are concerned about the news regarding the deployment of US troops, we must avoid military escalation," Foreign Minister Josep Borrell told local radio. "This is news to confirm, but we are very worried," said the head of the Spanish diplomacy.

Borrell was consulted on the government's decision to

Nicolás Maduro

to refuse the admission of a delegation of European parliamentarians who were trying to meet the President of the National Assembly and proclaimed
president in charge,

Juan Guaidó

"We condemn" Maduro's attitude in this regard, said the minister. Spain's Esteban González Pons of the conservative Partido Popular (PP) party is one of those deported.

Spain has an embbady in Caracas and, according to Borrell, "all possible measures" have been taken to facilitate the entry of MEPs, but they have not worked well.

At the same time that he was worried about this rejection, Borrell insisted on the basic solution sought for the situation in the Caribbean country and insisted on the rejection of military action. "It's not like that," he says. That is why he called for the European bloc's ability to act as a "moderating force" in the crisis.

"The European Union is a force of moderation and progress, the situation can not be solved by foreign military intervention, there are cases that show it.The way of political pressure, causing a change without catastrophic confrontation , is the way to go "he said.