US EditionRodríguez: Venezuela 'Does Not Take Orders From Any External Actor'
Acting president Delcy Rodríguez condemned US interference and urged political dialogue amid debates on oil sector reforms and ongoing US pressure, following Maduro's capture.
- On Sunday, Delcy Rodríguez, acting president, rejected Washington’s orders and addressed oil workers in Puerto La Cruz on Venezolana de Television, urging talks with the opposition for political agreements.
- Earlier this month, US forces captured Nicolás Maduro and Delcy Rodríguez assumed acting presidency amid steady White House pressure, including demands on oil production and foreign ties.
- Lawmakers are debating a bill to loosen state control over oil, allowing private oil companies to operate fields independently while state oil company remains minority partner; oil drives Venezuela’s economy with the world’s largest extra-heavy crude.
- On Friday, Rodríguez said 626 people had been released recently and she would call Volker Türk to verify the list, while Foro Penal reported at least 266 releases.
- Rodríguez has been walking a tight-rope balancing Maduro loyalists and US expectations, but the Trump administration has pushed her to allow investment from US energy companies while last week Trump said he wants María Corina Machado `involved` in Venezuela's leadership.
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Venezuela’s acting president says she has had ‘enough’ of US orders
By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez said Sunday she has had “enough” of Washington’s orders, as she works to unite the country after the US capture of its former leader Nicolás Maduro. Rodríguez has been walking a tight-rope since being backed by the US to lead the country in the interim; balancing keeping Maduro loyalists on board at home while trying to ensure the White House is happy. Now, almost a month…
Venezuela Is Taking the Doublethink Approach with the Trump Administration
It’s a delicate game that Delcy Rodríguez is playing. The theoretically “interim” President of Venezuela and successor of Nicolás Maduro, following his abduction by the U.S. military to stand trial on a variety of charges in the U.S., Rodríguez finds herself forced to fend off two existential threats at once. On one hand, she must put up a token show of resistance against the imperialist swine of the big, bad USA, which invaded her country, kill…
From the Community | History shows that Trump’s operation in Venezuela was wrong. Period.
In 1950, the American diplomat George Kennan, the chief architect of the U.S. Cold War policy of “containment,” lamented Latin American sovereignty. On assignment in Caracas, Venezuela, Kennan complained that American firms had to pay the Venezuelan government, then a U.S.-backed dictatorship, a “ransom to the theory of state sovereignty and the principle of non-intervention” for oil. At the apex of U.S. post-war power, in the mind of the conser…
Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodriguez says she has ‘had enough’ of US orders
Venezuela has had “enough” of taking orders from the Trump administration, the country’s acting leader has said just weeks after Washington claimed she would “run” the country under their instruction.
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