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Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Nicolás Maduro remains the country’s only president, rejecting US assertions of authority after President Donald Trump said Washington would “run” Venezuela following Maduro’s capture.
“There is only one president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moro,” Rodríguez said during an emergency meeting of the Defence Council of the Nation, hours after Trump outlined the US position during a press conference in Washington.
Rodríguez described the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as an “illegal kidnapping” and accused the United States of pursuing regime change to gain control of Venezuela’s oil, mineral and natural resources. She said the operation violated international law and Articles 1 and 2 of the United Nations Charter.
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