Spain recalls its ambassador in Buenos Aires after Milei’s latest insults

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1. # Spain recalls its ambassador in Buenos Aires after Milei’s latest insults

   *Albares insists on demanding a “public apology” from the Argentine president “after what was an attack” on the welcome he received this weekend in Madrid, where he attended a Vox event.*

   Spain will no longer have a diplomatic mission in Argentina. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, announced on Tuesday that the government had decided to permanently withdraw its ambassador in Buenos Aires, María Jesús Alonso, due to the attitude of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, who has not only failed to apologise for his insults to Pedro Sánchez and his wife, but has even made them worse in recent hours.

   “The withdrawal of the ambassador means that the embassy will continue at the level of chargé d’affaires,” said Albares at the press conference following the Council of Ministers. The Foreign Minister also insisted on demanding a “public apology” from Milei “after what was an attack” on the reception given to the Argentine Prime Minister this weekend in Madrid, where he was attending a Vox event. “Argentina will have to go on without the Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires,” he insisted.

   On Sunday, the government recalled its ambassador in Buenos Aires for consultations and then summoned the Argentine ambassador in Madrid, Roberto Bosch, after Milei called Begoña Gómez “corrupt” at the Madrid event and accused Sánchez of protecting her. Moncloa has repeatedly called on the Argentine president to apologise, but the South American government has reiterated in various circles that it is Spain that should apologise for the alleged attacks on Milei.

   On Monday, Milei also said that he felt “attacked” by Sánchez, who he said was “working in line with Kirchnerism”. The Argentine president also accused a section of the Argentine opposition of causing the crisis between the two leaders.

   “I am not going to apologise to him under any circumstances… If I were the one who was attacked,” the president said in an interview with Todo Noticias (TN), hours after returning from his trip to Spain, where he gave a speech at an event organised by Vox in which he called Sánchez a “scumbag” and branded his wife, Begoña Gómez, as “corrupt”.

   **Condemnation by the European Commission**

   The European Commission has condemned “personal attacks” and “attacks on family members” of politicians, after being asked about the diplomatic crisis between Spain and Argentina. “They are unacceptable,” foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said of the Latin American president’s insults of Pedro Sánchez and his wife during a global far-right event in Madrid sponsored by Vox.

   “We hope that the two countries, Spain and Argentina, will find a solution to resolve this bilateral dispute,” said Stano, who framed the diplomatic conflict as a purely Spanish-Argentine issue, leaving the EU out of the picture.

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2. Spain has not done this with Russia (no explanation needed), Israel (a country that this government has shown opposition due to the Gaza conflict) and Morocco (a country that often makes statements that are an attack on Spanish territorial sovereignity regarding Ceuta, Melilla, the Canary Islands and its EEZ)

3. Ridiculous.

   Huge conflation between the leaders and the country. Let those idiots offend each other if they want. It’s not nice and quite disrespectful, but that’s a personal affair of them.

   The Kingdom of Spain or The Argentine Republic don’t have anything to do with their skirmishes. Playing with the ambassadors for this reason is incredibly childish.

4. Every time I feel ashamed of our politicians but try to look at the bright side thinking they can’t go lower… They go lower.

   And then you have to see their stupid fanboys supporting them. I get it, they are the only moderate left we have, but there is no reason to pretend that they are awesome. They are stupid, manipulative, corrupt, run-of-the-mill politicians.

5. A good decision. And honestly, if they declared him “persona non grata” in Spain, it would be even better.

   We already have enough troubles here in Spain without adding to the pile the foreign interference of a deranged clown who decides to visit our nation only to support the far-right movements in our country.

6. Ridiculous, only doing it because personal reasons, fking Spanish president is a clown

7. Did Spain apologized for their calling Milei a drug addict?

8. Milei is such a petulant child. He is making a point of insulting all of Argentina’s most important trade partners, Brazil, China, and Spain.

9. This f#cking idiot *comes to Spain* and has the brilliant idea of making baseless accusations against Pedro Sánchez’s wife *just a few days after Sánchez almost quit politics because of the constant baseless accusations against his wife by the far-right press*.

   It takes a special talent to act like such a complete moron.

10. spain hasn’t been relevant since like the 1700s