From Washington Examiner: Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed further insight into the United States’s plans for the decapitated government of Venezuela, which is intended to ultimately culminate in transition.
Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, who is currently being held for trial in New York, is accused of holding his country hostage through corrupt and inefficient oil sales to sanctioned regimes such as Russia and Iran — enriching himself and wounding the oil-centric economy.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Rubio said the “three-fold process” will amount to “stabilization” under the current regime headed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez, followed by “recovery,” and finally, a change in leadership.
“Step one is the stabilization of the country; we don’t want it descending into chaos,” Rubio said.
Rubio said seized Venezuelan “barrels of oil” would be sold at “market rates” and be “dispursed in a way that benefits the Venezuelan people — not corruption, not the regime.”
The second phase of “recovery” would be aimed at “ensuring that American, Western, and other companies have access to the Venezuelan market that is fair.”
Next is a “process of reconciliation” within the country, so that “opposition forces can be amnestied and released from prison or brought back to the country to rebuild civil society.”
Next, the U.S. would begin overseeing the process of “transition.”
“Some of this will overlap. I’ve described this to them in great detail,” Rubio said. “We’ll have more details in the days to follow, but we feel like we’re moving forward here in a very positive way.”
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