Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez asserted that Nicolás Maduro is “the only president of Venezuela” after US forces captured Maduro early Saturday.
In a defiant handle broadcast from Caracas, Rodríguez mentioned that Venezuelans “must not become slaves again.” “We will never be a colony again,” she mentioned. She additionally condemned the “aggression” from the United States and declared that the “words of the president are the only ones we are guided by.”
“We demand the immediate release of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, the only president of Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro,” Rodríguez mentioned throughout a session of the National Defense Council broadcast by state tv channel VTV.
Alongside different prime officers, Rodríguez mentioned that Venezuela’s territorial integrity was “savagely attacked” by the operation that the US carried out in Caracas and different components of the nation.
0:00 Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez calls for the “immediate release” of President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, Cilia Flores
1:51 CNN senior White House reporter Kevin Liptak studies from Florida
5:06 Journalist Mary Mena studies from Caracas
