The lukewarmness of Josep Borrell's statements about the dramatic situation in Venezuela is disappointing. The new High Representative of the European Union's Foreign Policy has made an exercise of what he calls realism by stressing that, one year after Juan Guaidó's recognition as legitimate president, the dictator Nicolás Maduro is still in his place; reason that Borrell wields to assume that there is no choice but to understand him. This is not the message that Venezuelans under the daily tyranny of Maduro need to receive , nor what the tens of thousands of Venezuelans exiled in Spain who seek here the freedom and democracy that are denied there are waiting for them from the EU.
The EU can expect a much more explicit and firm commitment to align with Guaidó, which embodies the only institutional legitimacy and the democratic alternative in the Caribbean country. Europe must represent a clear hope for Venezuelans and express the determined will to fight with all the instruments at their disposal - including new sanctions, if applicable - the infamous dictatorship of a satrap who condemns his people to misery, hunger, oppression and extrajudicial executions.
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