The United States will “run” Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” can be ensured, says President Donald Trump. Venezuela’s new president, Delcy Rodriguez, is “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.
But President Rodriguez said, “What is being done to Venezuela is an atrocity that violates international law… There is only one president in Venezuela and his name is Nicolás Maduro.”
A Trump administration official said yesterday, “I’m not claiming that she’s the permanent solution to the country’s problems, but she’s certainly someone we think we can work at a much more professional level than we were able to do with [Maduro].”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today the administration’s goal was to change the nation. “The goal of the policy is to see changes in Venezuela,” he said, “that are beneficial to the United States first and foremost, because that’s who we work for, but also we believe beneficial for the people of Venezuela who have suffered tremendously… We want to see the oil proceeds of that country benefit the people of Venezuela.”
