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Jan 05, 2026
Here is Fellow Traveler Quico Toro with the bad news!
Venezuela’s New President Is No Moderate
In fact, Delcy Rodríguez is a regime extremist.
Quico Toro
Jan 5
Here is One after another, Venezuelans lined up to share instances of her awfulness: her tireless whitewashing of the regime’s crimes, the international sanctions she was under, her leadership of the sham constitutional convention Maduro had used to void the opposition’s win in parliamentary elections in 2024, and especially the close links she’s reputed to have with SEBIN, the hated secret police behind Venezuela’s most notorious political prison and torture center.
To Venezuelans who had spent over a decade seeing in her one of Nicolás Maduro’s most ardent and uncompromising acolytes, calling her a “moderate” is an outrage. Here’s a woman who has held all of the most important offices of state—oil minister, minister of foreign affairs, president of the constituent assembly, vice president—and has never allowed any hint of sunlight to appear between her and Maduro.
Earlier today, Delcy Rodríguez became the new president of Venezuela.
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Victimhood
Quico Toro is a contributing editor at Persuasion and the founder of Caracas Chronicles. Like eight million other Venezuelans, he was forced to flee Venezuela’s dictatorship.
Editor: The reader can only wonder at the absence of Historical Memory that afflicts Quico Toro, and his cadre of Neo-Cons: who pass themselves off as the victims, now the prisoner of the American Fachist’s Trump, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio!
Should the reader look to the rich history of Latin America from at the the rise of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara ,The Sandinistas, The Contras, etc.
Editor: Even William James, via Alexander Livingston, offers this: ‘Damn Great Empires! William James and the Politics of Pragmatism’
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