Venezuela’s interim dictator, Chavista Delcy Rodríguez, celebrated this Wednesday (1st) the removal of United States sanctions against her and stated that she hopes this measure will be the first step towards overturning similar punishments against the country.
“The president’s decision [Donald] Trump is a significant step in the right direction towards normalizing and strengthening relations between our countries. We trust that this progress and determination will ultimately lead to the lifting of the additional sanctions in force against our country,” Rodríguez wrote in X.
“This will allow rapid economic development, investments and an effective bilateral cooperation agenda for the benefit of our people. We will continue working for a prosperous Venezuela for all!”, added the dictator.
This Wednesday, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed the Chavista’s name from its list of targets for economic sanctions, where Rodríguez had been since 2018 due to accusations of corruption and human rights violations.
Rodríguez became interim dictator of Venezuela in early January, after the United States carried out a military operation in Caracas that resulted in the capture of then-dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to face charges related to narco-terrorism in American federal court.
Since then, the Chavista regime has drawn closer to the United States (with which it has a long-term partnership in the energy sector) and received praise from Trump, who refused to support opposition leader María Corina Machado to command Venezuela, claiming that she would not have the necessary support within the country.
On Monday (30), Washington reopened its embassy in Caracas after the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, which had been severed since 2019.
