The US State Department announced that it “respects” the decision of the most extremist sector, the different oppositions in Venezuela, to end the alleged interim position of former deputy Juan Guaidó, a measure announced last friday december 30 during a meeting held by former deputies of the extinct legislative period 2015-2020.
The United States Foreign Affairs spokesman, Ned Price, explained during a press conference that the White House, currently occupied by US President Josph Biden, continues the policy undertaken by his predecessor, Donald Trump, of ignorance towards the Venezuelan State and its institutions; denying the legitimacy of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and the Venezuelan National Assembly, this by noting that “the 2015 National Assembly has renewed his mandate.”
However, the support for the highest figure of that extinct legislature and head of the alleged interim, Juan Guaidó, lost the support of Washington to continue the siege of Venezuela, Price pointed out as another of the deputies elected in 2015.
Price highlighted how the former deputies, whose mandate expired in 2020, “has made their decisions and we (the US Executive) respect and will respect the decisions they make.”
It is worth noting that, despite the continuation of the policies to force a change of government in Venezuela that the White House still maintains, expressed by Price when referring that Biden considers that the extinct AN of 2015 “is the last democratically elected institution in Venezuela », the withdrawal of support for Guaidó as the presumed interim president, is part of a set of measures that show how the US backs down in its strategies to overthrow Maduro, such as, for example, granting a license for the oil company Chevron to work with Venezuela.
It is worth noting that President Maduro, during his interview with the Spanish journalist, Ignacio Ramonet, regretted that the US maintains its policy of aggression against Venezuela and pointed out how the United States Government has been trapped “in a meaningless policy on Venezuela, by supporting non-existent institutions” such as a “Narnia assembly” that they continue to support.
Maduro assured that it is “in one way or another” “blackmail in foreign policy from Florida, from Miami-Dade” that has a great impact “in the White House, in the State Department (of the US)” and assured that “Venezuela is prepared, fully prepared to take steps towards a process of normalization and regularization of diplomatic, consular, and political relations, with this government of the United States and with the governments that may come.”
Guaidó back to the heap
It is important to note that with 72 votes in favor and 8 saved, the former deputies who supported Guaidó fired him four years after his self-proclamation in a public square, despite the allegations of the former deputy (elected as a substitute for La Guaira in 2015) that it would be dangerous for that opposition to finally be in charge of his supposed office, and thus Guaidó became another of the former deputies who continue to say that his mandate will not expire.
In this regard, Price, after being asked if Biden still recognizes Guaidó as his interlocutor in Venezuela, limited himself to answering that they will continue to work with him “as a member of the 2015 National Assembly.”
