The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguezdefended this Sunday the dialogue announced by his Administration as a way to resolve “divergences” and “internal conflicts”, and rejected Washington’s “orders” on politicians in his country.
“That is why it is important that we open the spaces for democratic divergence, but that it be politics with a capital P and with a V of Venezuela. Enough of Washington’s orders on politicians in Venezuela. Let it be Venezuelan politics that resolves our differences and our internal conflicts,” declared the official at an event with oil workers in the city of Puerto La Cruz.
At the event, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Rodríguez stated that the discussion with respect is “welcome” with people who “think differently.” But he added that “those who seek harm and evil” must be “rejected” and separated from national life”.
“Those who dared to go to the United States to give thanks for the bombing of our people do not deserve the dignity of this country or its people,” he stressed without mentioning names.
What has Delcy Rodríguez said about Washington’s decisions?
The president in charge recalled that on Friday she proposed the call for a “true dialogue.” This is an initiative that – as he said that day – must include both “coinciding” and “divergent” political sectors. And he entrusted this task to his brother and president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez.
He also then asked that this dialogue have “concrete, immediate results.” Furthermore, he is Venezuelan and “Do not impose external orders any more, neither from Washington, nor from Bogotá, nor from Madrid,” he stressed.
On Saturday, Delcy Rodríguez called it “shameful” that a Venezuelan celebrates and appreciates the United States military attack in which Nicolás Maduro was captured. This a week after opposition leader María Corina Machado met with President Donald Trump.
On January 15, Machado presented Trump, during the meeting they held at the White House, with the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal that was awarded to him by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The framed medal was accompanied by a message of “gratitude” from the Venezuelan people for Trump’s actions to achieve “freedom” for the South American country, according to photos published by the New York Post.
The US president assured on January 4, in an interview with The Atlantic magazine, one day after the military attack against Venezuela, that if the Venezuelan interim president “does not do what is right, she will pay a very high price, probably higher than Maduro’s.”
However, after having a telephone conversation with the Chavista leader, the Republican leader described her, on January 14, as “a fantastic person” with whom he said they have “worked very well.”
