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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Venezuela Rejects the Trump Administration's Transition Plan</h1>March 31, 2020</div>
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<p>Venezuela's <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Colombia-Brazil-Hold-Alliance-to-Attack-Venezuela-20200310-0007.html" target="_blank">Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza </a>Tuesday
assured that his country's sovereignty is not negotiable and rejected a
proposal by the United States for a "political transition."</p>
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<p>"They can say what they want when they want, and how they want.
However, the decisions on Venezuela are made in Venezuela with its
institutions and constitution. We are not supervised by the United
States," Arreaza said.</p>
<p>On Tuesday morning, the <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Special-Representative-to-Venezuela-Goes-After-Telesur--20200219-0026.html" target="_blank">U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliot Abrams</a> presented a project for a "political transition", which was endorsed by State Secretary Mike Pompeo.</p>
<p>"We've made clear all
along that Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Pompeo
said at a press conference in Washington.</p>
<p>Asked if
the opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido could run in the presidential
election, which the United States would like to implement in Venezuela
within a year, Pompeo said: "Absolutely yes... we continue to support
him," as reported by Bangkok Post. </p>
<p>Venezuela has permanently denounced the interventionist actions of
the United States, a country that insists on destabilizing the
government of <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Maduro-Calls-for-Dialogue-With-the-Opposition-Over-COVID-19-20200325-0023.html" target="_blank">President Nicolas Maduro</a>.</p>
<p>"Venezuela's
decisions are made in Caracas. We are not supervised by Washington or by
any other capital. They waste their time in their maze, ”the Bolivarian
minister stressed.</p>
<p>“We've always wanted
to have good relationships, but they are obsessed with controlling
Venezuela and its oil. We do what Venezuela says, not what Trump
orders," Arreaza added.</p>
<p>In frank disrespect for international law, however, Abrams and
Pompeo’s “Democratic Transition Framework” proposes to create a Council
of State in Venezuela that would be made up of members of the ruling
party and opposition parties.</p>
<p>This interim
government would assume power until the presidential and legislative
elections are held in late 2020. If so, the U.S. would lift the coercive
measures it imposed on Venezuela.</p>
<p>On Monday, President
Maduro asked the international community for its support to stop the
persecution that the U.S. is executing against his country amidst the
pandemic.</p>
<p>"I ask for your
invaluable support in the face of this unusual and arbitrary
persecution, which is executed through a refreshed version of that stale
McCarthyism unleashed after the Second World War. Then they pleasantly
labeled their adversaries as Communists to persecute them, today they do
so through the whimsical categories of terrorists or drug traffickers,"
the Bolivarian president said.</p>
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