Maduro’s VP DELCY ELOÍNA RODRÍGUEZ GÓMEZ should not be anywhere near Venezuela’s presidency.
Remember that a year ago, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grennel, delivered a message in person to the former terrorist leader of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. In late January 2025, only a few weeks after President Trump’s inauguration, Grennel met with Maduro and worked out the release of 6 Americans.
At that time, the US under President Trump refused to recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela following the contested presidential election in July 2024. Venezuela released six detained Americans as Grennell was ending his visit.
More recently, after the capture and arrest of Maduro, President Trump wants nothing to do with the President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez.
President Trump mentioned this in his press conference on Saturday morning, when he shared that the VP under Maduro had offered to help put the country back together. President Trump pointed out, however, that she is Maduro’s VP.
Overall, it is a terrible idea to allow Delcy Rodriguez to help put Venezuela back together. Anyone who advocates for this should be viewed with suspicion. (There are rumblings that at least one person near the President wanted Rodriguez to lead the country going forward.)
However, Rodriguez’s running Venezuela will never be allowed to last. The New York Post claims that Delcy Rodriguez didn’t like the fact that President Trump captured the terrorist leader of Venezuela and her boss Maduro:
The Maduro loyalist, who has helped him maintain his regime for over a decade, has vented her fury at Trump’s capture of the despot, whom she called her nation’s rightful leader.
Rodriguez, who also serves as minister for finance and oil, slammed Maduro’s arrest as ‘an atrocity that violates international law’ and called for his ‘immediate release’.
‘We call on the peoples of the great homeland to remain united, because what was done to Venezuela can be done to anyone,’ she asserted during a National Defense Council session after the US military operation.
Based on observations, Delcy Rodríguez functioned as the civilian operator sustaining the Maduro regime and the Cartel de los Soles. This role put Delcy in the middle of a transnational organized crime ring and allowed her to assist in the election manipulation needed to keep the corrupt regime in power.
Delsy likely managed the regime’s financial lifelines, including crypto-based laundering networks, illicit gold revenues, narcotrafficking proceeds, and covert payments to military and paramilitary structures. This, of course, would have put Ms. Rogriguez in the middle of negotiations with Iran, Russia, Cuba, and China.
In her role in the regime, the Vice President of Venezuela was the chief civilian operator of the Cartel de los Soles and the coordinator of foreign-state alliances and illicit finance networks.
Terrorists from the Middle East invaded Venezuela. Members of Hamas and Hezbollah reportedly were all over Venezuela. This could not have happened without VP Rodrigues helping them obtain passports and money. Israel reportedly linked Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis’ financing to Maduro’s VP.
Perhaps, the US could obtain from Delcy where the terrorists running Venezuela placed their money and cryptocurrency, but no more than that.
President Trump is right. Anyone who supports Maduro’s VP, Delcy Rodriguez, and who believes she is a good person to work with after Maduro’s capture is not thinking straight.
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