The interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, stated this Thursday that if she ever has to go to the United States while in office, she will do it 'standing up' and not 'crawling'. 'If one day it falls to me as interim president to go to Washington, I will do it standing up, walking, not dragged; I will do it with the tricolor flag,' said Rodríguez when presenting the management report of the Venezuelan government on behalf of Nicolás Maduro, captured by U.S. military forces in Caracas on January 3. 'It will be standing up, never crawling,' emphasized the head of state, who urged that 'the diplomatic battle' must be fought. Rodríguez also pointed out that 'a new policy' is being forged in the country after the 'unprecedented aggression' from the United States. 'A new policy is being forged in Venezuela (...) after an armed aggression from a nuclear power, as never known in our history, it is an unprecedented aggression, although our contradictions are not unprecedented,' said Rodríguez, without explicitly mentioning the United States. She also stated, according to the Argentine News agency, that the military attack by the United States left a 'stain' on relations between the two countries, which they will resolve 'diplomatically'. 'There is a stain in our relations. We said that we are going to resolve it diplomatically,' said Rodríguez in her speech when presenting the management report of the Venezuelan government on behalf of the deposed president. The acting president added that they know that in the United States 'they are powerful', but they are not afraid to face the situation through 'political dialogue' and thus resolve the differences between the two countries 'once and for all'. 'We know that they are very powerful. And we are not afraid to face it diplomatically and through political dialogue to resolve once and for all this historical contradiction'.
