In an interview on Venezolana de Televisión, Spanish political scientist Juan Carlos Monedero analyzed the policy that the current United States administration is implementing against Venezuela, and said that President Donald Trump is a man with a lot of power, who does not have the tools to handle it properly.
“Trump does not know what he is going to do, he is a person with too much power without having the tools to handle it. Those who point out that he is being manipulated are right, and this man, when he realizes that he has been deceived, changes his perspective,” he said.
He suggested that Secretary of State Marco Rubio seeks to weaken Trump’s figure to occupy a position of power ahead of the 2028 presidential elections. He added that the American president lives in a world of sharks and may be realizing that he is being deceived.
“One of Marco Rubio’s personal ambitions is to try to become president of the United States, through agreed promises that allow him to obtain financing,” he said, referring to the Miami lobby, which has a lot of economic power.
Regarding Trump, he specified that the great promises of his campaign are not being represented by either Marco Rubio or the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, in the North American nation that faces a very high inflation rate.
Maduro has shown great capacity for resistance
Monedero stressed that, since Maduro took on the historic challenge of succeeding Commander Hugo Chávez, in a scenario that many considered impossible, he has faced sanctions, blockades, assassination attempts, guarimbas and mercenary incursions and, despite this, he remains firm, dialoguing with the BRICS, the emerging bloc that represents the new multipolar world.
“I have heard no less than five Latin American heads of state and some Europeans praise Nicolás Maduro for his and his people’s capacity for resilience… and there it is, Nicolás Maduro talking to the BRICS, which is the world that is emerging, and seeing how the Lima Group has disappeared,” he said.
He said that in Venezuela there is a very solid, very united and consolidated government. “One of the things they have done is fuel dissidence, that they were fighting among themselves, that there were factions. Those of us who know the government of Venezuela know that they are a very intertwined government and a people that also does not allow them to be separated.”
In this context, he stressed that President Nicolás Maduro, to this day, remains in a position of strength and resistance, consolidating the presence of Venezuela in the context of this new multipolar order.
