By Deutsche Welle
US President Donald Trump declared this Tuesday that all Venezuelan political prisoners will be released. “We are going to get them all out” of prisons, he declared to the press before embarking on a trip to China.
The Delcy Rodríguez regime claims that the recent amnesty law has benefited more than 8,000 people, a figure questioned by family members and human rights organizations.
“The people of Venezuela are delighted with what has happened. They can’t even believe it. They are dancing in the streets”Trump said.
“Venezuela is now making more money than it has in the last 25 years”
The leader of the White House raised this Monday in an interview the idea of Venezuela becoming the 51st state of the United States, a suggestion that arouses irritation in the Chavista regime, willing to cling to power.
“We have Exxon, we have Chevron, we have all the big (oil) companies in the countryand Venezuela is now earning more money than it has earned in the last 25 years,” he said.
The arrest of Nicolás Maduro sparked a cascade of political and economic changes in Venezuela, under instructions from Washington. In addition, the Trump administration established a three-phase plan (stabilization, reconstruction and transition) to normalize the overall situation in Venezuela and the State Department assures that the first phase is already over.
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