Venezuelan Vice President for Communications, Alfredo Nazareth, denied the circulating news regarding plans for the country’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, to travel abroad soon.
Nazareth stated via his channel on “Telegram” on Friday: “Acting President Delcy Rodríguez is not planning to travel abroad soon. The Venezuelan government is focusing on the domestic agenda to ensure our people’s right to peace and stability,” according to Russia Today website.
This denial refuted a previous report by the Spanish newspaper “ABC,” which relied on sources within the American administration indicating that Rodríguez requested permission to travel to Washington next Tuesday.
These reports came after a delegation from the U.S. State Department visited Caracas today, Friday, to assess the possibility of resuming diplomatic mission operations. Following that, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced that the government decided to launch a “trial diplomatic process” to revive the work of mutual diplomatic missions, aiming “to address the consequences of the aggression and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores, and to formulate an agenda of mutual interest.”
Last Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and their escort out of the country, sparking a wave of global outrage and anger.
Trump admitted in a press conference that the goal of the aggression and kidnapping operation was not drug allegations as much as it was regime change by force aimed at controlling Venezuela’s rich oil resources.
The American aggression and kidnapping operation faced a wave of angry international condemnations, considered a serious violation of international law and a dangerous precedent threatening the stability and sovereignty of states.
