{"id":115491,"date":"2021-02-28T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115491"},"modified":"2021-02-28T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T04:29:23","slug":"expelled-eu-envoy-to-leave-venezuela-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115491","title":{"rendered":"Expelled EU envoy to leave Venezuela on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/media\/content\/20210225\/c1_3903887.jpg\" alt=\"Venezuela's Foreign Minister presented EU Ambassador Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa with a letter declaring her 'persona non grata' and giving her 72 hours to leave the country\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Venezuela&#8217;s Foreign Minister presented EU Ambassador Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa with a letter declaring her &#8216;persona non grata&#8217; and giving her 72 hours to leave the country<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; EU ambassador to Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, will leave Venezuela on Tuesday (Mar 2) after being expelled by the government in response to new sanctions, a European diplomatic source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order came Wednesday for Brilhante Pedrosa, who is Portuguese, to depart within 72 hours after the EU imposed new sanctions on 19 high-ranking Venezuelan officials for &#8220;undermining democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she will leave on March 2 due to the &#8220;purely logistical reasons&#8221; of lack of flights out of Caracas, the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had served as EU ambassador to Caracas since October 2017, but the government of Nicolas Maduro declared her persona non grata on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU responded a day later by declaring Venezuela&#8217;s representative to the bloc, Claudia Salerno, as persona non grata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU has now ordered sanctions against a total of 55 Venezuelan officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU expanded its sanctions list after rejecting a December legislative election that saw Maduro win control of parliament after an opposition boycott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following disputed elections in 2018, Maduro&#8217;s own claim to the Venezuelan presidency was rejected by the EU, the United States and some 50 other countries. They consider Juan Guaido to be the country&#8217;s legitimate head of state.<span style=\"background-color: rgb(232, 234, 235);\"><i> &#8212;&nbsp;NNN-AGENCIES<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&#8217;s Foreign Minister presented EU Ambassador Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa with a letter declaring her &#8216;persona non grata&#8217; and giving her 72 hours to leave the country CARACAS, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; EU ambassador to Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, will leave Venezuela on Tuesday (Mar 2) after being expelled by the government in response to new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}