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Rodríguez, vice president of Nicolás Maduro who assumed power after the capture of the Chavista leader by US forces on January 3, said on Monday that “does not accept orders from any external factor” and stressed that she is not afraid of the “personal threats” against her.
“The people of Venezuela do not accept orders from any external factor, the people of Venezuela have a Government and this Government obeys the people,” Rodríguez said in response to statements by the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, which he did not specify, but which he described as “irrelevant” and “offensive.”
Trump, who after the operation against Maduro announced that he would oversee Venezuela, publicly maintains that he has a very good relationship with the Government of Delcy Rodríguez, with whom he would have closed agreements for the trade of oil and the release of political prisoners in Venezuela. Although initially marginalizing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado from the transition process, the U.S. president expressed last week his desire to “involve her” in the future of Venezuela, after she gave him her Nobel Peace Prize medal during a meeting at the White House.
