The ruler in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, promised this Monday “not to rest” until every Venezuelan joins a national pilgrimage to demand the end of sanctions against the country.
«I am not going to rest until every Venezuelan, every Venezuelan woman, joins the pilgrimage (…). “All in national unity in a single cry, in a single song that is the end of the sanctions for our country,” Rodríguez said during a visit to a school in Caracas.
In a broadcast on the state channel VTV, the president assured that last Sunday, on the first day of the pilgrimage, people “took to the streets in prayer, in song, in conversation” at a time when, she added, Venezuela “dialogues for a common goal,” which is the cessation of sanctions.
“Right now we are in a process of pilgrimage throughout the country, a pilgrimage to achieve a Venezuela free of sanctions,” concluded the president in charge, who has held office since last January 5, two days after the United States captured Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and removed him from power.
The pilgrimage was called by the president in charge of Venezuela to demand the end of sanctions and began last Sunday in states bordering Colombia, where government authorities and Chavismo activists were mobilized.
This activity has three routes and will extend until next May 1, when the president plans to announce a “responsible” increase in the monthly minimum wage, frozen since March 2022 at 130 bolivars per month, about 27 cents at today’s official rate.
The United States, the European Union (EU), which imposed sanctions in November 2017, Canada (2017), Switzerland (2018) and the United Kingdom — which adopted its own sanctions regime after leaving the EU in 2020 — have been the main drivers of economic and financial measures against the Venezuelan state apparatus and senior officials of Chavismo in recent years.
