The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, spoke out this Thursday about the multiple suggestions made by the U.S. president, Donald Trump, about turning her country into the 51st state, stating that this “is not correct” and warning that the Venezuelan people will “always” watch over their independence.
“It is not correct. Our history speaks of what the processes of independence are, more than two centuries of independence, of sovereignty,” Rodríguez claimed in an interview for the RAV Español platform, in which she asserted that “the Venezuelan people will always defend their independence, territorial integrity, and Venezuela as a whole.”
There have been several occasions throughout this year when the White House occupant has dropped the possibility of the “51st statehood,” that is, the hypothetical integration of Venezuela as the fifty-first state of the North American country.
Last May, Trump presented Venezuela as the “51st state” of the United States in a social media post in which he added no text beyond the cited slogan embedded in a map where the Bolivarian Republic appears colored with the U.S. flag.
Asked about her relationship with the Republican magnate, Rodríguez maintained that “from the first moment” there has been “frank” and “respectful” communication, with differences between Caracas and Washington being able to be resolved through “channels” such as the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
“Communication flows and not only flows but is given in the realm of respect, and I believe that little by little we are untying. I see this as a chain tangled with many knots,” said the Miraflores occupant, who also said she believes that this process of “untying” requires “patience, good faith, and trust.”
Finally, the acting president said she is “available” to Trump if he wants to receive her. However, she specified that she will “never” want to be a “gatecrasher,” that is, “to arrive somewhere without having been invited.”
That same Thursday, the White House chief announced the publication of documents that, he claimed, “prove that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received information about a specific plot to manipulate the results in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela.”
Defending, in line, that this was what happened, Trump stated in a speech to the nation that there was a conspiracy to “digitally rig the country’s elections” in 2020.
“This information included precise details about the methods the regime had developed to digitally alter vote counts in such a way that they could not be detected even with an audit, no matter how thorough,” the U.S. president insisted.
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