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The United States closely follows all the movements of the new Venezuelan Government after the capture of Nicolás Maduro. In the speech that Marco Rubiothe Secretary of State, will offer this Wednesday before the Senate to explain Washington’s policy on Caracas, he will remind the president in charge, Delcy Rodriguezwhich there will be another military intervention if the path of cooperation is not followed.
“We will closely monitor the performance of the interim authorities as they cooperate with our staged plan to restore stability in Venezuela. Let there be no doubt: as the president has declared [Donald Trump]”We are prepared to use force to ensure maximum cooperation if other methods fail,” reads Rubio’s speech, published Tuesday.
The head of US diplomacy will also receive the Venezuelan opposition leader on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Department he directs. Maria Corina Machadotwo weeks after his meeting with Trump, in which he presented him with his Nobel Peace medal.
According to Rubio’s official agenda, the meeting will take place at 1:00 p.m. local time in Washington (18:00 GMT), after inform the Senate about the Trump Administration’s policy towards Venezuelaa hearing scheduled for 10:00 local time (15:00 GMT).
The Secretary of State, in relation to the use of force, says he hopes that “this will not prove necessary”, but warns that the Trump Administration “will never shirk” its duty to the American people or its mission of lead the American continent.
According to Rubio, Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president who took power after the Chavista leader’s fall, “has expressed her intention to cooperate with the United States.” He affirms that the president in charge “has committed to opening Venezuela’s energy sector to American companies” and granting them “preferential access.”
He also celebrates that “he has promised to end Venezuela’s oil support for the Cuban regime” and to “promote national reconciliation” with the opposition and Venezuelans abroad. “Rodríguez is fully aware of Maduro’s fate; we believe that for your own personal interest coincides with the advancement of our objectives“, he expresses.
Rubio’s appearance will take place after this week Delcy said that his Government does not accept external “orders”. Trump declared in this regard this Tuesday that he had not heard those statements and reaffirmed that he has a “very good relationship” with the interim government.
Rubio will emphasize before the Senate that the attack in Venezuela, for which the Government did not ask for approval from Congress, was not a war or the occupation of a foreign country, but a “judicial operation.” During it, “two drug traffickers” were captured and will be tried in the United States, he declared in relation to Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
He also ensures that Maduro “was not a legitimate head of state”given that many countries did not recognize his re-election in 2024 after elections in which he lost to Edmundo González Urrutia and “refused to give up power peacefully.”