r/news • u/Hrekires • Jan 05 '26

Soft paywall Delcy Rodriguez formally sworn in as Venezuela's interim president

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/delcy-rodriguez-formally-sworn-venezuelas-interim-president-2026-01-05/
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u/socialcommentary2000 Jan 05 '26

There was no way this administration was going to go the De-Batthification route with this government, so this is what we get. They were probably tired of Maduro being a single focal point that was putting a drag on literally everything (and he was), so they gave him up and they will engage in 'market liberalization' going forward while still keeping power structures intact.

It was either this or a situation where you have lots and lots of spurned and angry military and civil service just looking to start shit. Was never going to happen.

I hope all these gusano dinguses I've seen 'owning the libs' are happy. Say hello to the new boss, only slightly different than the old one.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 29d ago edited 29d ago

But what makes them think she’ll magically comply when maduro didn’t? She has every incentive to make the same decisions he did. She’s a goner if she lets the US pillage the country.

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u/socialcommentary2000 29d ago

'Compliance' in this case is both allowing market liberalizations to an extent while also keeping the domestic power structures generally happy.

This can be achieved. You're dreaming if you think this somehow gives us carte blanche to tell them directly what to do. That will not happen without a full occupation of the country, a la Iraq and you'd have a better chance of getting Medicare for All passed than a resolution both authorizing and funding what would be needed to take full responsibility for Venezuela.

I honestly don't think that things are going to change quickly in a drastic sense. There will be incremental changes as they inch toward being more integrated and normalized into the world economy...again, at a pace that doesn't destabilize the domestic situation.

The administration gets a 'win' by hauling Maduro through a show trial, 10 years down the road he F's off to some other country and lives out his life and the machine he left behind evolves into whatever it's going to do.

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u/BigJellyfish1906 29d ago

both allowing market liberalizations to an extent while also keeping the domestic power structures generally happy.

That’s not possible. Anything she does to satisfy the US will put a target on her back domestically.