MADRID, April 22 (UPI) -- Spain recalled its ambassador to Venezuela Wednesday after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused Spain of supporting terrorism.
After Maduro claimed Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was among a "group of corrupt (officials), bandits and thieves" and part of "an international conspiracy to overthrow" the Venezuelan government, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said, "Given the level of verbal irritation that I have seen from President Maduro, I have decided to recall our ambassador to Caracas for consultation. The adjectives used by the authorities -- never by the Venezuelan people -- are absolutely intolerable."