What has happened in the last few hours
María Corina Machado wants to return to Venezuela “as soon as possible.” The Venezuelan opposition and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, offered her first interview tonight after Maduro’s arrest, on the conservative American network Fox News, from where she thanked Trump for the “brave actions” that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro. Machado has also assured that he wants to return to Venezuela “as soon as possible.”
Trump rules out elections and takes charge of the political transition in Venezuela. In an interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump assured that there will be no elections in Venezuela in the next 30 days. “We have to fix the country first, you can’t have an election because there is no way for people to vote,” he said in a telephone interview with journalist Kristen Welker.
Delcy Rodríguez is sworn in as president of Venezuela. The interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, was sworn in as president of the country this Monday in the National Assembly. The Supreme Court appointed her as interim during the weekend, after the United States attacked Venezuela and captured the country’s until then president, Nicolás Maduro.
Maduro pleads not guilty before the federal court in New York. Nicolás Maduro has pleaded not guilty to the four crimes related to narcoterrorism of which he has been accused in the United States. “I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still president of my country,” Maduro assured through an interpreter, before being interrupted by federal district judge Alvin Hellerstein.
