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In reply to the discussion: U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says [View all]
Wiz Imp
(9,997 posts)15. The leader of Venezuela is not a puppet.
She was the Vice President under Maduro and she has called for Maduro's return. She definitely doesn't agree with Trump's policies. But for now, she is appeasing Trump somewhat to keep the job and allow the government to reorganize before strongly standing up to Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn87rv0jdy1o
Under pressure from Trump, Venezuela's new president has aces up her sleeve
A luminous outline of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores loomed over Caracas against the night sky in January. The steady light of hundreds of drones in a show put on by the government in Venezuela, suspended their image in front of the clouds, before rearranging to call for their return: "El pueblo los reclama," they spelled out, "the people want them back".
After a lightning operation by the US to spirit the deposed president and his wife out of the country on 3 January, Venezuela has found itself in limbo.
Despite Delcy Rodríguez, the former vice president and now acting Venezuelan leader, calling for the return of Maduro and Flores, there are no signs that's going to happen. The former first couple are in New York in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial for alleged crimes including drug trafficking, all of which they deny.
Nevertheless, Rodríguez - a Maduro loyalist - must maintain a tricky equilibrium: appealing to her socialist base by continuing to support Maduro through anti-imperialist rhetoric, while at the same time changing policies under pressure from US President Donald Trump, with the threat that she could be following Maduro if she won't comply.
A luminous outline of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores loomed over Caracas against the night sky in January. The steady light of hundreds of drones in a show put on by the government in Venezuela, suspended their image in front of the clouds, before rearranging to call for their return: "El pueblo los reclama," they spelled out, "the people want them back".
After a lightning operation by the US to spirit the deposed president and his wife out of the country on 3 January, Venezuela has found itself in limbo.
Despite Delcy Rodríguez, the former vice president and now acting Venezuelan leader, calling for the return of Maduro and Flores, there are no signs that's going to happen. The former first couple are in New York in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial for alleged crimes including drug trafficking, all of which they deny.
Nevertheless, Rodríguez - a Maduro loyalist - must maintain a tricky equilibrium: appealing to her socialist base by continuing to support Maduro through anti-imperialist rhetoric, while at the same time changing policies under pressure from US President Donald Trump, with the threat that she could be following Maduro if she won't comply.
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U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 25
OP
Well, the peeResident, his family and friends all need to get presents, don't they?
erronis
Mar 25
#3
Chump will gladly trade his worthless bitcoins for the real gold from Venezuela
FakeNoose
Mar 25
#14
A psychological theory of personality involving malevolent traits, hence "dark".
AloeVera
Thursday
#36
WEll, there is a lot about these people that makes me think of Voldemort. Dark Triad is as good a descriptor as any.
Amaryllis
Thursday
#38
Kind of like the U.S. Army emptied Iraq's vault and "Brought back" their gold. They said that it was
LiberalArkie
Thursday
#35