Sanchez called for responsibility and requested respect for International Law, while emphasizing that the government is “closely monitoring the situation.”

The Sumar group and the Podemos party, and in particular Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz, took a much more forceful stance on the situation in the South American country, unequivocally condemning the “imperialist aggression” by the US, a position echoed by the Ministers of Health, Monica Garcia, Culture, Ernest Urtasun, and Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego.

Podemos Secretary General Ione Belarra also spoke out strongly, demanding that the Spanish government sever diplomatic relations with Washington and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) “before it’s too late.”

The main Spanish trade unions, the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union of Workers (UGT), condemned the bombings and the alleged kidnapping of President Maduro, while also denouncing “the unilateral use of military force against a sovereign state as a serious violation of international law and the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.”

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