MEXICO CITY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th October, 2018) Venezuala declared Ecuador's Charge d'affaires Elizabeth Mendez persona non grata in response to the expulsion of Venezuelan Ambassador Carol Delgado from Quito, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said.
"The Venezuelan government can only reject the systematic meddling in its affairs on the part of Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno and the expulsion of its ambassador from Quito, due to which it is forced to take a similar measure in relation to Ecuador's Charge d'affaires in Venezuela, Elizabeth Mendez, who is a persona non grata," the Foreign Ministry said in a communique on Thursday.
Caracas gave Mendez 72 hours to leave the Venezuelan territory.
