Venezuela’s VP says capture of Maduro has a ‘Zionist tint’

4 January 2026, 8:35 am

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Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2025. (AP/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president of Venezuela who has been tapped to take control of the country after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, claims that the operation to arrest Maduro has a “Zionist tint.”

“The governments of the world are simply shocked that it is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela which is the victim and subject of an attack of this nature, which has, without a doubt, a Zionist tint,” says Rodríguez in a televised speech, according to the Mexican public broadcaster.

She adds that “the extremists who have promoted armed aggression against our country — history and justice will make them pay.”

There is no evidence to suggest Israel had any role or even knowledge of the American plan to capture Maduro.