The Trump administration is giving Venezuela’s new leadership a free pass.
The White House has instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid criminal investigations into acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Rodríguez has been on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s radar since at least 2018, and has been tied to all sorts of criminal activity ranging from drug trafficking to gold smuggling. But all of that is apparently being brushed under the rug, as the Trump administration shows blatant favoritism towards the leader it installed earlier this year.
It is not clear if prosecutors were working towards charging Rodríguez with a crime. A Justice Department spokesperson told the AP in an email that “there was never an investigation into her to shut down.”
U.S. officials told the AP that the directive was intended to ease Rodríguez’s transition into power in Venezuela, and to avoid further destabilizing the oil-rich nation.
Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to invade Venezuela in early January, sending hundreds of troops through its capital city Caracas to capture the country’s 13-year ruler Nicolas Maduro. Maduro and his wife were transported to New York to face federal narcotics charges, to which they both have pleaded not guilty.
Trump failed to notify Congress before doing so, but he didn’t forget to tip off his friends at America’s biggest oil companies, which stand to gain the most from the U.S.’s newfound control over Venezuela’s oil supply—the largest in the world.
Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president, was the major political benefactor of his sudden abduction. Despite her criminal affiliations, the Trump administration has opened the door for her to do business with the U.S., lifting sanctions (that were placed during Trump’s first term after she undermined Venezuelan democracy by supporting Maduro’s authoritarian rule) and allowing her to re-establish ties with U.S. banks, according to the Associated Press.
Beyond that, Trump has uplifted her name in an effort to sanitize her character, describing her as a “terrific person.”
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