‘Venezuela is not a democracy’ Argentina’s Macri tells Spanish media

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri used some of his harshest language yet against Venezuela’s socialist government in comments to Spanish media published yesterday ahead of his trip to Madrid.

“Enough with euphemisms, Venezuela is not a democracy,” the centre-right Macri said, according to leading newspaper El Pais.

“I know what the Venezuelan people are suffering, I think what we have to have is a firm position, without euphemisms, saying that in Venezuela democracy and human rights are not respected,” Macri said.

He said Argentina would help end “this social, political and economic conflict,” where it could, according to the paper.