Trump said that Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, would help the United States run Venezuela. She quickly said the opposite.
Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.
“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.
Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice president — delivered a televised address to Venezuela that made clear she viewed the United States as an illegal invader that must be rejected.
It’s insane how fast MAGA went from no wars to “we are so happy that a dictator was removed and the people of Venezuela are happy!”
WTF!?!? It’s batshit crazy the lengths they go to to justify all his illegal actions.
right wing propaganda is a hellava drug. especially for venezuelans in USA. its not like venezuelas is suddenly going to elect a democratic president, it almost never is when USA/UK backs a coup.
There will be a sham election and a USA stooge will (try to) rule the place for a while. Then he’ll be couped by the masses. Another stooge ascends to power, with USA’s blessing. And so on…
All of this has happened many times before in South America.
Wait? They’re saying venezuelans are happy about it? Is that false?
Afaik Maduro was a harsh dictator so it’s not totally unplausible in my head that they would be happy this happened.
Asking, not implying anything. Idk what to trust about this.
Removing the Dictator doesn’t get rid of the Dictatorship without actual occupation and regime change, like the US did in Iraq.
Trump thinks he can remove the head of state then that makes him the head of state. Like some sort of video game or something - you capture the capital city once and suddenly you own all the territory. That’s just not how this works, and there are clear recent examples to show it.
Tx for the response
maduros govt is still in power, hence the VP is taking control, if she isnt going to bootlick TRUMP, is unlikely it will change. I think trump was vying for the other opposition that will roll over for him.
the ones that fled the countries are happy. the ones in the country is pretty scared right now.
they were never, anti war.
then saying so was such an obvious lie, they were always vocally pro war.