Photo: Acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s visit to the José Félix Ribas Socialist Community

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Delcy Rodriguez reiterated that her country is not governed by “foreign agents,”

declared seven days of national mourning,

and appointed a new commander of the Presidential Honor Guard.

WASHINGTON, 6^th January — Fake narratives used by Trump administration to justify bombing Venezuela and kidnaping its president, Nicolás Maduro, began to spread Tuesday. The spread of lies began just 24 hours after the Venezuelan president, along with his wife, Cilia Flores, were brought to a court in southern New York to be read false “charges”.

A revised indictment against Maduro, just released by the US Department of Justice, tacitly reveals that the so-called “Cartel of the Suns”, the alleged drug trafficking organization the Venezuelan official was accused of leading, does not actually exist.

Instead of detailed accusations of the “Cartel of the Suns’ ” activities, it accuses defendants of links to the “clientelist system” and corruption within the Venezuelan state government. The indictment also alleges a “sponsorship system” and a “culture of corruption” fueled by drug money, according to additional explanations from some media outlets.

The news was first reported by The New York Times and quickly spread around the world because it began to expose the crudely crafted fallacies with which the White House is trying to justify its interventionism and aggression against Venezuela, culminating in the kidnapping of the president and his wife. At this moment, the abducted are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, outside of which demonstrations have already taken place and are still continue demanding their release, just as they did during the court hearing in Manhattan (New York City’s Central District).

The lies revealed by the new version of the accusations against Maduro also call into question the veracity of – because it is known that it is illegally based on the falsely declared fight against drug trafficking, after which Donald Trump filled the waters of the Caribbean Sea with ships with more than 16,000 marines, powerful weapons, and attack ships under the command of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford.  At the same time, Trump is trying to justify his arbitrary actions, using the authority he lacks to persecute other countries, citing the presence of cartels on the territories of foreign states and the violation of their sovereignty, as happened with Venezuela.

As the various accusations against Maduro are compiled, they are supplemented with ever newer fictitious versions, and this means radical changes due to the impossibility of referring to the non-existent “Cartel of the Suns”. As Russia Today journalists rightly noted, this “phantom” and non-existent group was mentioned in texts published in 2020 only 32 times.

At the same time, American media outlets, such as the alternative site Antiwar, are presenting the “investigation” conducted by the prosecutor’s office as significant. The site recalled that professional experts have repeatedly questioned the Trump administration’s claims and assertions that the aforementioned cartel is not a real group, just as Maduro is not the leader of any cartel.

The gross omissions in the charges brought against the Venezuelan head of state also provoked a reaction from his colleague, Gustavo Petro, who is the president of neighboring Colombia. He was one of the first to condemn the US attacks on Caracas and the Venezuelan states when the US bombing began early Saturday morning, even before the terrorist kidnapping of Maduro.

“What I said is this: there is no evidence of the existence of the Cartel of the Suns, a drug trafficking organization, which points to Maduro being kidnapped to prevent oil from leaving Venezuela,” Petro wrote on his X.

Meanwhile, Venezuelan conscripts are demanding the release of Maduro and Cilia and it continue in various parts of Venezuela, while Venezuela’s governing president, Delcy Rodriguez, has declared seven days of national mourning in honor of those who gave their lives defending Venezuelan territory and its democratic institutions.

The President of Venezuela also signed a decree appointing General Gustavo Enrique González López as commander of the Presidential Honor Guard, according to reports from “Con el Mazo Dando”.

Delcy Rodriguez reiterated her call to work in “national unity” and emphasized that her country is not protected by anyone (referring to the United States), emphasizing that there no any “external agent” who is governing it. With this, she responded to all of Trump’s statements that falsely suggested that the new president and his administration would “cooperate” with the Trump administration, according to media reports covering Delsey’s press conferences.

At the same time, the White House chief brazenly declared that a group of officials from his cabinet, among whom he named Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, would be responsible for what he calls a “transition period,” led by himself.

“The Venezuelan government runs our country,” Rodriguez said. “There is no external agent governing Venezuela. This is Venezuela, its constitutional government; it is the consolidated power of the people,” she noted.

Delcy Rodriguez has a heavy, yet delicate, mission on her shoulders – to lead the country, defending its sovereignty and ensuring peace, despite renewed threats from Washington following the illegal and outrageous attack on the residence of the constitutional president and his kidnapping, while demanding his release.

On the same day, the president, responsible for leading the country, again received the support of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, led by General Vladimir Padrino.

Abroad, many countries expressed recognition for Delcy Rodríguez after she was sworn in on Monday, an act by which the Bolivarian executive demonstrated cohesion even in the absence of a constitutionally elected president and avoided a dangerous power vacuum.

Venezuela is an independent state and must be guaranteed the right to decide its own destiny without any external violence or interference.