Supreme orders Delcy Rodríguez to assume as acting president after Maduro’s capture
Caracas.- The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela ordered this Saturday that the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, assume as acting president of the South American country after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, which attacked Caracas and other areas of the oil nation during this early morning (local).
“It is ordered that citizen Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez, executive vice president of the Republic, assume and exercise in charge all the attributions, duties and faculties inherent to the position of president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to guarantee administrative continuity and the integral defense of the nation”, stated the president of the Constitutional Chamber, Tania D’Amelio, when reading a statement broadcasted obligatorily on radio and television.
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