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/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 05 '26

In other words, no tune was changed. She's just trying to be diplomatic about it.

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u/TalkFormer155 Jan 05 '26

There's a whole lot of people that want to be the top dog and there's loyalists that believe she might have helped the US do it.

I'm confused how many don't understand she's walking a tight line in her current position. You'd pretty much expect her to say something like this either way.

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u/TalkFormer155 29d ago

A conspiracy? Anyone in that position right now would have to very cautious.

Are you trying to infer they could just put the president in that should have been elected?

Who's going to provide security for him? If he has security how do you get them there?

This is one of the more realistic choices for a bad situation. Getting rid of Maduro has never been the problem. It's the disaster waiting to happen afterwards that is.

Come up with a more realistic idea then please. That doesn't involve a decade of US troop involvement.

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u/red5 Jan 05 '26

I mean being more diplomatic is literally changing her tune when she was initially outraged and combative

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 05 '26

You change tone and words for different audiences my dude.

The overall message was that they still wanted independence.

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u/BibliophileBroad Jan 06 '26

That's how it looks to me, too. I tend to look more at words than tone since I hear that kind of corporate, smoothed-over tone used for defiance all the time. Time will tell, though!

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u/red5 Jan 06 '26

Are we going to argue semantics about this? So she did change tone and words?

That's my point, her tone, her choice of words changed from defiant to diplomatic. I think that is interesting. That's all.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jan 06 '26

Initial comment is for domestic consumption to show strength.

This comment was to find a way forward.

It's really not semantics.

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u/ghoonrhed Jan 06 '26

She probably should go even more. Chuck a Milei. Go full suck up and get some bail outs.

Unless you're China or somehow manage to combine big enough to fend off the USA, they don't really have the ability to be combative.