French President Emmanuel Macron, who had been silent until now, just took a position on the U.S. intervention in Venezuela: “The Venezuelan people are today freed from the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro,” he said, adding that ”One can only rejoice.”
Macron, however, found the right spin to “legalize” this blatant violation of sovereignty. He called for a ”transition which would be peaceful, democratic and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people,” underlining his wish to see “President Edmundo González Urrutia, elected in 2024, ensure as fast as possible this transition.”
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry denounced Macron’s “insolent statements … which constitute an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign State and demonstrate a profound ignorance of the political, institutional, and social reality of the country.”
