Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Portugal warns Venezuela ties may suffer over jailed supermarket managers


“I told my counterpart that there is a red line for us, and if there is no progress in overcoming this problem there would be consequences for the bilateral relationship,” Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said in televised comments. He called Venezuela’s latest crackdown on businesses “an administrative initiative directed against Portuguese interests in Venezuela”. The foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to Lisbon to tell him Portugal was “very preoccupied” with the detentions. More…

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