Spain will invite Delcy Rodríguez to the Ibero-American Summit

Eduardo González Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares indicated on Tuesday that Spain will invite Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, to the 30th Ibero-American Summit, to be held next November in Madrid. “Right now, we are reaching out to all the countries, and we will proceed as we always do: we invite whoever holds the international representation of each country,” the minister told reporters during his official visit to the Dominican Republic. “This Madrid Summit of the Americas, in that sense, will be no different from others,” he warned. “The Pro Tempore Secretariat does not change the rules; there are rules established by everyone, and we will follow them at all times,” he added. Former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assumed the role of interim president after the attack carried out last January by the United States in Caracas, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. Last February, Albares proposed to his EU colleagues lifting the sanctions against Delcy Rodríguez, which were first adopted in 2016 and entail a ban on her entry into the EU and the freezing of her assets in Europe. According to the Spanish government, this restriction has exceptions, and therefore the acting president could attend the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid, to be held on November 4 and 5 under the slogan “Ibero-America. Together we build our community. Together we project it into the future and into the world.”

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