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Venezuela expels EU ambassador over new sanctions during pandemic
European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa is presented with a letter of "persona non grata" from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021

VENEZUELA has expelled the EU’s ambassador following Brussels’s imposition of new sanctions aimed at undermining its socialist government.

Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa was given 72 hours to leave the country on Wednesday.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Caracas had no option but to respond given the EU’s “disrespect for international law.

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