{"id":1340181,"date":"2026-01-03T22:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/we-will-never-become-a-colony-venezuelan-vice-president-calls-on-us-to-release-maduro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:19:32","slug":"we-will-never-become-a-colony-venezuelan-vice-president-calls-on-us-to-release-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/we-will-never-become-a-colony-venezuelan-vice-president-calls-on-us-to-release-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe will never become a colony\u201d: Venezuelan vice president calls on US to release Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has publicly called on the United States to release Nicolas Maduro and his wife. She also stated that the country will never become a colony of any state and called for unity among citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/live-trump-says-us-has-captured-venezuela-president-maduro-2026-01-03\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez made a statement on state television from Caracas. She commented on the situation surrounding Nicolas Maduro following US President Donald Trump&#8217;s statements about his detention.<\/p>\n<p> Rodriguez emphasized that there is only one president in Venezuela, and that remains Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There is only one president in Venezuela, and that is Nicolas Maduro,&#8221; said Delcy Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p> The vice president also called on the United States to release Maduro and his wife. She called the incident a kidnapping and appealed to citizens to remain calm and united.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We demand the release of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Venezuela will never become a colony of any country,&#8221; said Delcy Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p> During the address, Rodriguez was accompanied by the Speaker of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, as well as the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Delcy Rodriguez said that the country must remain united to defend sovereignty amid events surrounding Venezuela&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/interim-management-of-venezuela-and-access-to-oil-trumps-key-points-from-the-press-conference-on-the-arrest-of-maduro\/\">Interim management of Venezuela and access to oil: Trump&#8217;s key points from the press conference on the arrest of Maduro<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\nEarlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-ukraini-prokomentuvaly-operatsiiu-ssha-proty-venesuely\/\">Sybiga reacted to the United States&#8217; strike on Venezuela<\/a> and the detention of dictator Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tyran-pishov-u-ssha-zaiavyly-shcho-maduro-postane-pered-pravosuddiam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolas Maduro would face justice \u201cfor his crimes.\u201d<\/a> Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-zaiavyv-shcho-maduro-ta-yoho-druzhynu-zakhopyly-i-vyvezly-z-krainy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolas Maduro and his wife had been captured and taken out of Venezuela.<\/a> <\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1767440447498_gei6tmk8u\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1767440447500_jtqy46bpv\" data-dest=\"placeholder\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1767440447500_1qepkmp2y\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1767440447500_fvul94cic\">\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-nakazav-atakuvaty-venesuelu-zmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US President Donald Trump ordered strikes on targets inside Venezuela<\/a> on Saturday, January 3. The Venezuelan government subsequently declared <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-venesueli-oholosyly-nadzvychaynyy-stan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a state of emergency in the country due to the American attack<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has publicly called on the United States to release Nicolas Maduro and his wife. She also stated that the country will never become a colony of any state and called for unity among citizens. This is reported by Reuters . Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez made a statement on state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1340177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1340181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}