In the space La Conversa Con la Luz, in alliance with Effect Cocuyo, the American journalist and writer maintained that US President Donald Trump does not care about the restoration of the constitutional thread in the country and that Delcy Rodríguez is walking on a thin layer of ice. Previously, the ARI program analyzed the reality of the releases announced by the interim Government and debated the possibility that the president in charge could remain in power.
In the opinion of American journalist and writer Jon Lee Anderson, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, does not care about the restitution of constitutional freedoms in Venezuela, his only objective after the military incursion on January 3 is oil.
Anderson said in an interview with La Conversa con la Luz that in the press conference after the removal of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, the word democracy never came out of the Republican’s mouth.
“At the moment, the democratic future of Venezuela is not assured, there is an uncertain situation,” Anderson said in the program hosted by Ronna Rísquez, director of the Rebel Alliance Investigates (ARI); Luis Blanco, director of Runrunes and Luz Mely Reyes, director of Cocuyo effect.
According to Anderson, the president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, is walking on thin ice because in Chavismo there are different groups that have a particular perception of remaining in power at all costs.
“I don’t think that the White House has well thought out the beginning of a transition process in Venezuela, it is likely that they have María Corina Machado waiting in a corner, it is not something that interests Trump, whom I consider a criminal who has urinated on all the accusations against him.”
The American journalist indicated that he does not rule out that the Republican president may find within Chavismo a figure that will be useful for his mercantilist interests.
“A soul similar to him,” he stated.
Anderson described the beginning of 2026 as a surreal period and claimed to have mixed feelings.
He stated that despite describing Trump’s actions as deeply undemocratic, he has been aware of the suffering of the Venezuelan people and has witnessed the ineptitude and corruption of the Chavista government that caused the exodus of millions of people.
He considered that Trump’s stance towards Venezuela has an imperialist overtone.
“Something like this has not been seen in 100 years of history, we must admit that it is perversely brilliant, he has the Chavistas working for him and Machado aside. That man’s ego has no borders.”
Anderson added that the desperate desire to be free has led the Venezuelan opposition down unthinkable paths.
“Since his first term, they have entrusted themselves to Trump as if he were Christ. Trump sees the rest of the world as his subjects, that is why he talks about taking over the Panama Canal, Greenland and even Canada. It is not true that he is popular in the United States, half of the country is against his policies.”
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Lie releases
This Tuesday, January 13, La Conversa of the Rebel Alliance Investigates made up of Runrunes, The Pitazo and SuchWhich He also analyzed the release process announced last week by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, and which according to several NGOs has not complied with the guarantees offered by the government itself.
In the space where Víctor Amaya, director of SuchWhich; César Batiz, director of The Pitazo; Rísquez and Blanco, the latter reported that Rodríguez spoke of 400 releases, figures that contrast even with those offered by the ruling party.
The director of Runrunes He clarified that even in numbers coming from Chavismo there are not 400 releases and that so far the measures have not benefited any practicing journalist.
Rísquez pointed out that the government’s figures do not match those managed by the NGO Foro Penal and that until now Chavismo has been bad for both political prisoners and family members, who since last week have been waiting with faith outside the detention centers.
According to Amaya, nine people with Spanish and Venezuelan nationality are still detained in Venezuela and according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country, eight have been released.
Amaya added that during a demonstration held at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) they denounced that some soldiers with completed sentences remain imprisoned and have also been transferred without prior notice.
Batiz referred to the case of a Spanish businessman who came to Venezuela to close his companies and was detained by the security forces to be extorted.
Batiz said that one of the keys to achieving mass releases, as the government promised, is that each prisoner responds to a different jailer.
Interim that follows
In Blanco’s opinion, Delcy Rodríguez is preparing so that his interim term in the presidency of the Republic will not be just a few days and to this end he has changed and appointed ministers, in addition to selling himself as a moderate figure due to his supposed technical ability in economics.
Batiz reported that in a meeting held at the Ministry of Communication and Information (Minci), Rodríguez herself acknowledged that the United States attack on January 3 took them by surprise and their special clamor was to keep Chavismo united.
He maintained that according to a report prepared by The PitazoVenezuelan soldiers agree that the country is not ready to repel a war action and that there was a lack of timely response.
He also indicated that the New York Times published that the Russian anti-aircraft defenses did not work, despite the fact that the government paid a large sum of money for them.
He also ruled out the existence of any sonic weapon.
“In any case, Venezuelan soldiers do not use hearing protection systems and are not accustomed to the firepower of another nation.”
Amaya pointed out that an article by SuchWhich quotes an anonymous military source, who referred to the rapid and “surgical” nature of the attack.
The director of TC stated that the member of the National Armed Forces (FAN) assured that the first US missile fell around 2 in the morning on January 3 and that the national defense had been practically blind and incommunicado for a long time.
Rísquez explained that although the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, speaks of around 100 deaths in the bombing, journalistic investigations show 78 confirmed people.
The director of ARI maintained that although the appointment of Delcy Rodríguez as acting president has generated demotivation in some Venezuelans, like the former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, we must demand respect for the results of July 28, 2024 and the active incorporation of the democratic opposition to an eventual transition process.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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