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From socialist student to Trump proxy: the 25-year rise of Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez

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Those who have encountered the interim president paint her in starkly different ways, but all agree she is likely to remain in power It was April 2002 and Delcy Rodríguez was a woman on a mission. Venezuela’s then president, Hugo Chávez, had been temporarily toppled by a bungled coup and Rodríguez, a junior diplomat who had been studying at Birkbeck, University of London, decided to act.

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