| Topic: | Who will lead Venezuela? Trump backs VP Delcy Rodríguez | |
| Posted by: | David Ainsworth | |
| Date/Time: | 04/01/26 14:33:00 |
| "They have left the government intact" It currently looks like that, anyway. "Who will lead Venezuela? Trump backs VP Delcy Rodríguez, dismisses Nobel laureate Machado At the center of Washington’s emerging plan is Delcy Rodríguez, 56, one of the most powerful figures in Venezuela’s ruling elite. Born in Caracas in 1969, Rodríguez is the daughter of Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, a left-wing guerrilla fighter and founder of the Liga Socialista party in the 1970s." "“I think it would be very tough for her [Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition leader María Corina Machado] to be the leader,” Trump said. “She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country. She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.” Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, responded on social media by declaring that “the hour of freedom has arrived” and calling on opposition-backed candidate Edmundo González Urrutia to immediately assume the presidency. Machado had dedicated the award to US President Donald Trump, describing his role as “decisive” in the country’s fight for freedom. Washington looks beyond the Opposition Despite Machado’s appeal, Trump indicated the US would instead engage with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime loyalist of Maduro, whom he described as being “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.” " https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/trump-backs-vice-president-delcy-rodriguez-for-venezuela-top-post-dismisses-nobel-laureate-machado-509305-2026-01-04 |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| "From the world cop to the world bully in less than one year". | 04/01/26 00:35:00 | David Ainsworth |
| Reply | 04/01/26 08:19:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Re:Reply | 04/01/26 09:05:00 | Barbara Stevens |
| Reply | 04/01/26 09:49:00 | David Ainsworth |
| Re:Reply | 04/01/26 11:22:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Reply | 04/01/26 10:07:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Reply | 04/01/26 11:13:00 | Adam Tripp |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 04/01/26 11:19:00 | David Ainsworth |
| Who will lead Venezuela? Trump backs VP Delcy Rodríguez | 04/01/26 14:33:00 | David Ainsworth |
| Re:Re:Reply | 04/01/26 11:31:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 04/01/26 12:31:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:"From the world cop to the world bully in less than one year". | 04/01/26 12:12:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 04/01/26 14:38:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 04/01/26 14:57:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Reply | 04/01/26 15:04:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Reply | 04/01/26 15:12:00 | Lucille Grant |
| Re:Re:Reply | 05/01/26 15:01:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Reply | 04/01/26 15:38:00 | Adam Tripp |
| Re:Re:Reply | 04/01/26 16:29:00 | Lucille Grant |