- New Leader of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez
By SCM Staff Writer
DONALD TRUMP has warned Venezuela’s new interim leader she will pay a “big price” unless she bows to his three-point plan to fix the broken nation.
The US President, fresh from the daring Delta Force snatch of dictator Nicolás Maduro, has handed hand-picked successor Delcy Rodriguez a list of non-negotiable demands to “Make Venezuela Great Again.”
According to a bombshell report from Politico, the White House is demanding Rodriguez:
CRACK DOWN on the “narco-terrorist” drug flows poisoning US streets.
KICK OUT hostile Iranian and Cuban “operatives” working in the shadows.
HALT all oil sales to America’s global enemies.
In a chilling warning from Air Force One, Trump told reporters: “If they don’t behave, we will do a second strike.”
The President, who says the US will now “run” the oil-rich country, has bypassed democratic opposition figures in favour of Rodriguez—a former Maduro ally known for her iron grip on the nation’s crude reserves.
”She is essentially willing to do what we think is necessary,” Trump boasted, adding that the US will be “reimbursed” for its troubles with “total access” to the world’s largest oil reserves.
Rodriguez, 56, was sworn in as interim president on Monday while Maduro sits in a New York jail cell. She has already dialled down her “anti-empire” rhetoric, begging the Don for “dialogue, not war.”
The crisis reached a boiling point last Saturday when elite US special forces swooped into Caracas, capturing Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
The “law enforcement mission” followed a massive US naval blockade aimed at stopping drug-running “shadow fleets” in the Caribbean.
While the world watched in shock, Trump declared: “We’re going to run everything.”
He claims the US is owed billions for the 1976 nationalisation of Venezuelan oil and plans to let American energy giants “get the oil flowing” to repay the debt.
Delcy Rodriguez, a law-educated technocrat who served as Maduro’s Vice President and Oil Minister, now finds herself walking a deadly tightrope: obey the White House or face the same fate as her former boss.
