Venezuela's government recalls ambassador to Spain

Venezuela's socialist government on Tuesday recalled for consultations its ambassador to Spain to protest Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's call to free a jailed opposition activist who led anti-government protests earlier this year.

Rajoy met with the wife of jailed hardliner Leopoldo Lopez last week in Madrid and posted on Twitter a short message urging his release.

Although that's something the United States, the United Nations and other foreign governments have demanded previously, it was enough to trigger an angry rebuke from President Nicolas Maduro, who blasted the conservative leader for "interfering" in Venezuela's affairs.

"He thinks he's the king, the owner of the Americas," Maduro said last week, accusing Rajoy of trying to distract attention from Spain's economic problems. "Go talk about the disaster you're creating for the Spanish people."

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It's too easy to pull Maduro's chain and get him barking madly.

Nicolas Maduro, the Bob Boudelang of Latin America.