Interim President Delcy Rodriguez has said she is willing to cooperate with the United States on the future of Venezuela, in a significant shift in tone from the immediate aftermath of a military operation leading to the abduction of leader Nicolas Maduro by US special forces.

“We consider it a priority to move towards a balanced and respectful relationship between the US and Venezuela,” Rodriguez wrote on Telegram on Sunday.

"We extend an invitation to the US government to work together on an agenda for cooperation that is aimed towards shared development,” she continued.

In a televised address on Saturday, Rodriguez denounced the US actions as “an atrocity that violates international law”, insisting that “the only president of Venezuela [is] President Nicolas Maduro.”

  • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
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    So…I’m guessing someone doesn’t want to be killed by the CIA? Would that be a dumb take? Cause that’s what this feels like

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      Or she was in on the coup and Trump’s initial statements about her running things for him weren’t just a product of the kakistocracy.

      Public statement: “We will not bow down to US imperialism!”

      Trump: “What the fuck, we had a deal, I’ll kill you.”

      Private statement: “Jesus, do you not understand that I need to say that to rally support to take over?”

      Trump: “I don’t understand anything at all, say the secret deal publicly or I’ll kill you.”

      Public statement: “We look forward to giving our nominal enemy everything they want.”

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      Well all the details for the kidnapping if Maduro are slowly leaking out we already know that there has been a team of cia agents and informants that were watching his every move. So she will likely clean house quietly behind the scenes and then the country will be ran exactly the way it’s been ran over these last few decades.

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        Yup, but this time USA will steal all natural resources and nothing would change for Venezuelans. Maybe some desperate militias would try to take over leading to civil war?

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      I’m a little annoyed that it took me nearly half an hour to find an image of Delcy Rodriguez where she isn’t looking directly at the camera, but it looks like we’re on the same wavelength lol

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      If killing is what the U.S. wanted then Maduro would have been dead months ago. It would have been easily accomplished, cost far less money, and resulted in far less backlash.

      She’s in no danger of getting whacked by the US; she’d either be Maduro’d or pushed from office.