The interim dictator of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, announced this Tuesday (27) that the country’s assets were unblocked in the United States as a result of dialogues with the government of American President Donald Trump.
In an event broadcast on state television channel VTV, the Chavista leader stated that she “established channels of communication of respect and courtesy” with both Trump and the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
“We are establishing a work agenda and, within the framework of this work agenda, (…) we unlock resources from Venezuela that belong to the people of Venezuela. We are unlocking them, and this will allow us to invest important resources in equipment for hospitals,” he said. Trump has not yet commented on the matter.
The dictator stated that the money will also be used to purchase equipment for the electricity system and the gas industry in the South American country.
The Venezuelan regime has reported several times that billions of Venezuelan dollars, as well as gold and other assets, are blocked abroad due to international sanctions, including those from the USA.
Rodríguez’s announcement comes after two days in which Caracas raised its rhetoric against the United States, with the dictator, who assumed leadership of the Chavista regime after Nicolás Maduro was captured by American forces on the 3rd, making statements claiming that Washington does not rule the country – contradicting the White House, whose spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, said that the Trump administration “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 said this Tuesday that he has a “very good relationship” with the Chavista and continues to ignore the opposition leader María Corina Machado and supports Rodríguez’s stay in power, under the argument that Venezuela could become a focus of terrorism like Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, if the Chavista regime is suddenly overthrown.
In today’s announcement, Rodríguez defended a “diplomatic dialogue to resolve controversies”.
“As of January 3 of this year, we proposed that our differences and disagreements be resolved through diplomatic dialogue, political conversation between authorities from one country and another country,” he declared.
