On January 3, President Trump changed our history: Nicolás Maduro, head of the criminal structure that held Venezuela hostage for nearly three decades, was captured and brought to justice.
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that → change → justice
What many thought impossible happened.
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thought → think → ?
Since then, our countries have had a historic opportunity: dismantle cartels, roll back Cuban, Russian, Iranian and Chinese influence, build an energy partnership, and bring millions home.
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countries → have → millions
We are determined to seize it, knowing that for this process to succeed, one force must be fully engaged: the Venezuelan people.
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force → determine → it
We once had Latin America’s most stable democracy and vibrant economy.
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We → have → democracy
We lost both to a criminal socialist regime.
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We → lose → regime
That regime still retains much power.
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regime → retain → power
If pressure eases while it holds de facto control, it will return to its old methods.
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it → ease → methods
Venezuelans want our children home, a bright future and a lasting US alliance based on common values.
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Venezuelans → want → values
Millions abroad will return only with a clear path toward democratic transition.
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Millions → return → transition
Only an elected government can provide that confidence.
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government → elect → confidence
That is what we voted for on July 28, 2024.
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we → vote → July
Maduro censored the media, barred me from running and imprisoned my team.
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Maduro → censor → team
But Venezuelans organized, voted, verified the results and overcame fraud and repression.
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Venezuelans → organize → fraud
We won overwhelmingly.
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We → win → ?
Maduro imprisoned more than 2,000 people but could not hide the truth.
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Maduro → imprison → truth
July 28 became our largest civic movement ever and proved Venezuelans are a guarantee of democratic stability and America’s best partner in the region.
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Venezuelans → become → region
We are a peaceful Western nation, committed to freedom and democracy, ravaged by socialism yet endowed with over 300 billion barrels of oil, vast gas reserves, hydroelectric potential and critical minerals … all just three hours from Florida.
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We → commit → Florida
American companies taught us to produce oil and brought us our national sport: baseball.
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companies → teach → sport
After 27 years of socialist destruction, we want the United States back as our leading trading partner, and we want Venezuela to be a reliable American energy source.
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Venezuela → want → partner
Venezuela can produce well over 5 million barrels a day with some $200 billion in investment.
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Venezuela → produce → investment
Oil companies may drill under almost any government, but capital on that scale requires 20- to 30-year contracts that bind future governments.
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that → drill → governments
Sustaining that investment requires a predictable legal framework, contract enforcement and a competitive fiscal regime — all possible only under a Western rule of law.
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all → sustain → law
The challenge goes beyond resources.
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challenge → go → resources
The same long-term certainty is needed to rebuild the power grid, ports, water systems and digital infrastructure, as well as institutions, territorial control, justice, education and health.
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certainty → need → grid
We have the plans and teams.
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We → have → plans
Strong institutions must give investors long-term safeguards, grounded in the rule of law rather than external pressure.
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institutions → give → pressure
They also prevent Chavismo from returning to its old methods.
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They → prevent → methods
A legitimately elected government can provide that certainty without costing American taxpayers a dollar.
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government → elect → dollar
Private capital can finance our recovery transparently.
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capital → finance → recovery
We want all of this in freedom and democracy, with both countries winning.
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countries → want → freedom
As leader of the civic movement millions made their own, I’ve made this commitment: Venezuela will honor contracts, protect private property and build a lasting strategic alliance with the United States.
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Venezuela → make → States
My duty is to accompany our people and channel growing social tensions peacefully.
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duty → accompany → tensions
I must be there, deepening citizen organization, strengthening our civic network and forging a national agreement among civilians and the military.
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I → deepen → civilians
I will return and travel the country, preparing Venezuela to rebuild its institutions, economy and democracy, and become America’s strongest partner in the hemisphere.
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Venezuela → return → hemisphere
That is why the next strategic step is to set a date for presidential elections within the next year, with a roadmap for the reforms needed to make them free and fair.
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them → set → reforms
A firm date will give Venezuelans a horizon for organizing and participating, bringing society into the process begun by Maduro’s arrest.
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date → give → arrest
To those who fear elections could bring instability, the opposite is true: They will unite the country and bring certainty.
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They → fear → certainty
The previous election showed millions can and will organize peacefully for democratic change.
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millions → show → change
Lasting stability rests on commitments made with a legitimate government backed by Venezuelans.
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stability → last → Venezuelans
…and 16 more, not listed.
The Aporia
