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Venezuela's Chavistas Turn on Delcy Rodríguez Over Embrace of Trump: 'It's Utter Surrealism'

U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez featured side-by-side (Credit: Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images / Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images / Edited by Miguel Paiva for Latin Times)

Prominent supporters of Venezuela's late president Hugo Chávez are publicly criticizing interim President Delcy Rodríguez over her growing cooperation with President Donald Trump, exposing tensions within a movement historically built around opposition to U.S. influence.

"It's utter surrealism," former Chávez minister Héctor Navarro told The Guardian, describing Rodríguez's rapprochement with Washington. Other longtime Chavistas have criticized the government over its oil agreement with the United States and Rodríguez's meeting with Trump in New York last week.

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