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  1. >When the United States attacked Iran, Yvan Gil, Venezuela’s foreign minister, issued a soft condemnation of the aggression against Venezuela’s longtime ally.
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    >The Trump administration communicated to Ms. Rodríguez that the post should be taken down, and warned her not to publicly support its adversaries again. Mr. Gil deleted the post hours after posting it.
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    >In effect, it was an admission that Venezuela no longer set its foreign policy.

    It's an admission that #Venezeula is a de facto colony of the US.

    >Who may lead the country on a more permanent basis is still deeply uncertain. María Corina Machado, the exiled opposition leader, remains the country’s most popular politician.

    Big [citation needed] there.

    >The time frame for the final phase of Mr. Rubio’s Venezuela plan, the free elections, remains undefined. When The Times asked Ms. Rodríguez in May when she would hold elections, she said, “I don’t know. Sometime.”
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    >Political analysts say that Ms. Rodríguez may be trying to run out the clock on the Trump presidency, hoping that the pressure to hold the vote would fade under his successor.
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    >For now, the question of when an election would be held is not in her hands. It is in Mr. Rubio’s.

    Venezuela's constitution already explains how elections happen. If the decision truly is Rubio's, and not Venezuela's, then perhaps the reason elections are being forestalled is because the US fears losing a compliant stooge.