Only large supermarkets and pharmacies were open, with long queues of residents of the country's capital standing in front of them. Not many people were willing to take part in the “big rally” called by the government to demonstrate the protest of the Venezuelan people against Maduro's abduction.
Throughout Venezuela, as the Spanish agency EFE writes in a dispatch from Caracas, there is a mood of waiting for further developments, while the Supreme Court on Saturday appointed Vice President Delcy Rodriguez as acting president.
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The Venezuelan Defense Council, composed of ministers and military commanders, was given special powers, including the mobilization of the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela.
After the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US would govern Venezuela.
The leader of the Venezuelan democratic opposition, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, announced in a manifesto addressed to voters in his country announced on Saturday that he is ready to take on the task of rebuilding democratic institutions in his homeland.
According to evidence presented by the opposition, Urrutia won the presidential elections in July 2024. The authorities declared Maduro the winner, but many countries around the world concluded that the elections were rigged.
