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The spokesperson for the United States Department of State, Natalia Molano, made a fool of the Chavista leadership this Thursday, especially Diosdado Cabello, by confirming that the departure of the five Venezuelan opposition members sheltered in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, was an extraction operation and not a negotiation with the Nicolás Maduro regime.
“It wasn't any kind of negotiation, it was an extraction, a very precise operation,” Molano stated in an interview for the international channel VPITV.
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“Just as the release of the six American citizens was not a negotiation… we are working with the parties that do have a presence within Venezuela,” he emphasized.
The statement directly contradicts the version offered by Diosdado Cabello, who on Wednesday, from his television show “Con el Mazo Dando”, denied that it was an international rescue and assured, without evidence, that everything was the product of an alleged negotiation in which, according to him, even the mother of the national leader, María Corina Machado, participated.
Meanwhile, the government of Argentine President Javier Milei also clarified that the operation was the result of months of coordination between Argentina and the new administration of Donald Trump, especially thanking Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The spokesman for the Casa Rosada was clear: “There was no negotiation.”
Molano also stated that the United States is intensifying pressure against the Chavista regime:
“We are putting as much pressure as possible, limiting any income flow from the Maduro dictatorship (…) we are going to continue cutting any type of resource to put more pressure and support the Venezuelan people.”
