The acting-president of Venezuela, chosen by its highest court of law, says the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro carries a “Zionist tint.”
After US forces launched an attack on Caracas in the early hours of Saturday, resulting in the abduction of Maduro, Venezuela’s Supreme Court designated Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as interim president to ensure “administrative continuity” and form the country’s National Defense Council.
The US forces' attack involved over 150 aircraft and marked a significant intervention amid multiple attempts to topple the democratically elected government of Maduro, including allegations of leading a drug trafficking cartel.
Rodríguez, who was designated as interim leader, demanded that Maduro and his wife, who were flown to a detention facility in New York after abduction, be immediately released.
In a televised address late Saturday, she condemned the US forces' attack, saying it carried a “Zionist tint.”
During her speech, she emphasized that Maduro remains the “only president of Venezuela” and demanded his immediate release.
Rodríguez described the attack as an “unprecedented military aggression” by the US, asserting that it was motivated by a desire to seize control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
Surrounded by military leaders and Cabinet officials, Rodríguez said that a National Defense Council had been formed and with the full deployment of Venezuela’s national armed forces to safeguard the country’s sovereignty, the Bolivarian state “will never again be a colony of any empire.”
Rodríguez’s remark about the attack carrying a “Zionist tint” points to the involvement or influence of Israeli regime forces in the American forces' attack.
“The governments of the world are simply shocked that it is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela which is the victim and subject of an attack of this nature, which has, without a doubt, a Zionist tint,” she said.
Rodríguez stressed that governments around the world were shocked by the US aggression against the Latin American state, insisting that “history and justice will make them pay.”
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