Maduro to Spanish foreign affairs minister: “Keep your nose out of Venezuela's business”
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 @ 9:02 PM
HUGO Chávez's successor as Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has told Spain's foreign affairs minister to 'keep his nose out' of the country's business.
José Manuel García-Margallo was due to travel to Caracas, but has been told to 'pay more attention to his own people' instead.
“The Spanish chancellor has said he is ready to come over and sort out Venezuela. Mister Spanish chancellor, don't come over to sort out Venezuela – go out onto the street and take responsibility for the Spanish working class, whom you have deprived of the right to work, the right to a salary and the right to a State pension,” stormed Maduro in a conference at the capital of the Latin American country today.
“Mister Spanish chancellor, keep your nose out of Venezuela, get out of here, you impertinent person. Venezuela deserves respect,” concluded the man who used to be Chávez's right-hand man and is now president.
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