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Venezuela’s Supreme Court precocious connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to go the country’s interim President, aft the United States seized President Nicolas Maduro and whisked him retired of the country.
The Court ruled that Ms. Rodriguez “assume and exercise, successful an acting capacity, each the attributes, duties and powers inherent to the bureau of President...to warrant administrative continuity and the broad defence of the nation.”
The judges stopped abbreviated of declaring Mr. Maduro permanently absent from office, a ruling that requires holding elections wrong 30 days.
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Ms. Rodriguez is simply a lawyer who graduated from the Central University of Venezuela successful 1993. She besides has served arsenic a prof astatine the Central University of Venezuela. She was besides the president of the national wrong the Venezuelan Association of Labour Lawyers.
The interim President commenced her governmental vocation successful 2003, joining the General Coordination of the Vice Presidency of the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela. From February to August 2006, she was the Minister for Presidential Affairs during President Hugo Chavez’s term.
In 2013, the past President Nicolas Maduro appointed her arsenic the Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information of Venezuela. She continued to clasp this station till October 2014.
In December 2014, she was appointed arsenic the Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Relations besides known arsenic Chancellor. Ms. Rodriguez became the archetypal pistillate to clasp this presumption successful Venezuela.
In June 2016, during the commemoration of the 195th day of the Battle of Carabobo, President Nicolás Maduro awarded Ms. Rodríguez the Military Order of National Defense, Commander Degree, First Class.
In June 2017, Ms. Rodriguez resigned arsenic Chancellor to basal arsenic a campaigner successful the National Constituent Assembly elections.
On June 14, 2018 Nicolas Maduro appointed Ms. Rodriguez arsenic the Vice-President of Venezuela succeeding Tareck El Aissam.
On September 10, 2020, Ms. Rodriguez was appointed arsenic the Minister of Popular Power for Economy and Finance.
The interim President Delcy Rodriguez has been sanctioned by respective countries and was banned from entering neighbouring Colombia.
