On 16 October 2025 this AP News article reported Venezuelan President for Life Nicolas Maduro had presented a plan for Maduro to secede power to his Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. The US rejected the plan.
Delcy Rodriguez has been accused of complicity in human rights violations while working with the Maduro regime. She was Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information of Venezuela from 2013 to 2014.
On 14 June 2018, President Maduro named Rodríguez to be Vice President of Venezuela, succeeding Tareck El Aissami. She also became the head official of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela’s intelligence agency, as it is dependent on the office of the vice presidency. On 2 December 2018, Rodríguez welcomed the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during his official visit to Venezuela. In November 2022, she visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. Wikipedia
Several countries have sanctioned Rodriguez; Columbia, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Canada among others.
Shortly after being named Vice President of Venezuela, Rodríguez was one of eleven officials sanctioned by the European Union on 25 June 2018, with her assets frozen and a travel ban issued against her for allegedly “undermining democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela.” Wikipedia
In January 2020, a controversy emerged in Spain surrounding Rodríguez’s presence at Barajas Airport in Spain, where she was purported to have met with José Luis Ábalos. This incident sparked significant attention because, since November 2017, Rodríguez has been prohibited from entering the territory of the European Union. Despite the allegations, José Luis Ábalos denied having met with Rodríguez. The incident took place on 20 January, when the aircraft bearing the registration TC-AKE and flying the Turkish flag arrived at the terminal. Upon recognizing Rodríguez among the passengers, Spanish authorities decided to prevent her entry into the country. Accompanying Rodríguez on the flight were Kenny Antonio Díaz, Alejandra Carolina Bastidas, Yussef Abou Nassif Smaili (her partner), Jorge Andrés Giménez), and Minister Félix Plasencia…The Guardia Civil’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) uncovered communications on Spanish businessman Víctor de Aldama’s mobile phone that directly linked him to Rodríguez, indicating discussions about the purchase of Venezuelan gold. A contract dated 27 December 2019 outlined the delivery of the gold between 27 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, shortly before Rodríguez’s secret trip to Madrid, which was officially described by La Moncloa as a “technical stopover.” Wikipedia
The missile attacks on drug boats, extrajudicial executions, have managed to ruin Maria Machado’s chances of replacing chavismo with real democratic changes. She aligned herself with Donald Trump and became demonized among international populists. I’m sure she actually believed Trump was out to oust Maduro instead of turning him into a hero for resisting Trump. In the same fashion, with the help of the US and France, the Ayatollah Khomeini stuck himself between Shah Pahlavi and the Iranian constitutionalists to form a Theocratic totalitarian state.
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