Venezuela took action in response to a Spanish minister characterizing Maduro’s administration as a “dictatorship.” Eduardo Gonzalez Urrutia, an opposition leader who fled to Madrid this week, claims to have won the election in July.
Venezuela’s government on Friday warned Spain against “interference” in its affairs and recalled its ambassador to the European country.
The statement comes a day after Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles referred to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government as a “dictatorship.”Also on Thursday,
the US sanctioned 16 Maduro allies over alleged “election fraud.”
