American President Donald Trump minimized this Tuesday (27) the statements made by Venezuela’s interim dictator, Delcy Rodríguez, against the United States and said he had a “very good relationship” with the Chavista.
“Well, I don’t know exactly what’s going on there, but I haven’t heard anything like that. We have a very good relationship,” Trump said in a conversation with reporters on the White House grounds.
In the last two days, Rodríguez, who assumed leadership of the Chavista regime after the then dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured by American forces on the 3rd, made statements claiming that the United States does not rule the country – contradicting the White House, whose spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, said that Washington “will continue to dictate” the Venezuelan government’s decisions.
“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”, said the interim dictator on Monday (26).
On Sunday (25), Rodríguez had stated that “we have had enough of orders from Washington regarding politicians in Venezuela”.
“May it be Venezuelan politics that resolves our differences and our internal conflicts. We have had enough of foreign powers,” said the dictator.
Despite this speech, Trump has passed over opposition leader María Corina Machado and supported Rodríguez’s stay in power, on the grounds that Venezuela could become a focus of terrorism like Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, if the Chavista regime is suddenly overthrown.
Last week, the American president called the interim dictator a “fantastic person”.
