Venezuela's new interim leader Delcy Rodríguez 'hates the West,' ex official warns

Nicolás Maduro’s interim replacement present starring Venezuela successful the aftermath of his apprehension represents a continuation of the aforesaid regime, and with a pistillate who "hates the West" astatine the helm, a erstwhile Venezuelan authoritative has warned.

Delcy Rodríguez’s elevation, the root said, underscores however Venezuela’s enactment continues to trust connected a choky ellipse of Maduro loyalists alternatively than caller figures, leaving what the root described arsenic "the axis of evil successful a geopolitical conflict remains 3 hours from Miami."

Rodríguez, Venezuela’s erstwhile vice president and lipid minister, was formally sworn successful connected Monday pursuing Maduro’s removal from bureau and his quality successful a New York courtroom Monday connected cause trafficking charges.

"The authorities is inactive the same, and she hates the West," the authoritative told Fox News Digital, speaking connected the information of anonymity.

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Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez addresses the media successful Caracas, Venezuela, connected March 10, 2025.  (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)

"Really, Delcy has evolved from a mediocre lawyer, and present she’s the president of 1 of the richest nations successful Latin America," the root said.

"She has astir apt been successful each post, due to the fact that they rotate the aforesaid persons arsenic they don’t person anybody other that they trust.

‘Delcy is simply a precise adjacent and trustworthy idiosyncratic for Maduro and was besides the aforesaid for Chávez.’"

President Donald Trump said Saturday that Rodríguez, 56, stood "willing to bash what we deliberation is indispensable to marque Venezuela large again."

Rodríguez, who has served arsenic overseas minister, president of the Constituent Assembly, vice president, and lipid minister, was sworn successful by her brother, Jorge Rodríguez, the caput of the National Assembly.

Born successful Caracas, Rodríguez is the girl of Marxist guerrilla person Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, a co-founder of the Socialist League.

He was arrested successful transportation with the 1976 kidnapping of American businessman William F. Niehous and aboriginal died successful constabulary custody, according to the New York Times.

"That ordeal is the instauration and the root of Delcy’s hatred of the West and of democracy," the root said, earlier claiming, "her full inheritance was Marxist."

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A side-by-side photograph of President Donald Trump and Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. (Joe Raedle/Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)

"The guerrilla Marxist constituent kidnapped an American enforcement successful 1976, and helium was held for 3 years until authorities located the radical hiding successful the Amazon jungle," the root claimed.

Rodríguez’s tenure arsenic overseas curate was besides marked by contention the root claimed, including allegations that Venezuelan passports, commencement certificates, and nationalities were illegally sold abroad, according to reports.

At the 2016 United Nations General Assembly, Rodríguez said the allegations were untrue.

"There were immoderate passports being sold successful Iraq, and they were giving commencement certificates to terrorists," the root claimed.

In 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Rodríguez, citing her relation arsenic a elder authoritative successful the Maduro government. Those sanctions stay successful place.

She was besides said to person been implicated successful the alleged "Delcygate" ungraded successful 2020 aft allegedly making a concealed halt successful Spain contempt sanctions connected her, reported by Spanish media. 

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Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez leaves the Argentina's Foreign Ministry successful Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. Mercosur Foreign Ministers from Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina met for a Mercosur Foreign Ministers acme successful Buenos Aires Wednesday. (AP Photo) (The Associated Press)

Reports alleged she was transporting golden into Europe, a assertion Rodríguez has denied.

"She had 40 bags afloat of golden successful a backstage pitchy arsenic vice president," the root alleged. "They enactment the bags done the X-ray, and they recovered the gold," the root claimed.

"Venezuela has go an occupied territory by Iran, China, Russia, and Cuba," the root added, citing equipped groups including FARC and ELN controlling ample parts of the country.

"Delcy is the interim, but each of these groups are portion of the cohort from Chávez that came from communist mindsets against the West that she came from."

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"We present spot the axis of evil successful a geopolitical conflict 3 hours from Miami," the root added.

"There are atrocity crimes committed by each of this group, positive there’s kleptocracy and expansive corruption, which is each inactive successful place," the root said.