President Maduro denounces US policy in Venezuela a 'failure'

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has denounced the US parallel institution policy in his country, calling Washington's attempt to assault and replace the public institutions of his country a “failure.”

Maduro made the remarks during the opening ceremony of Venezuela's now-defunct opposition-led National Assembly (NA) session in the new year, according to TeleSurTV's website.

Criticizing the US attempt to shift political powers in his country, he said the "Trumpist policy against Venezuela of assaulting and replacing the public powers of appointing us a president, to name us a National Assembly, to name us a judicial power from outside failed."

"The US Empire and its representatives in Venezuela have no shame in criticizing themselves and saying that we made a mistake and failed in Venezuela," the Venezuelan president asserted. 

"Venezuela knows that the one who makes the laws, who legislates, who appoints, who governs in parliament in Venezuela is the National Assembly elected in December 2020, installed on January 5, 2021, which with this new board of directors enters its third year of five years of unappealable period".

He urged Brian Nichols, the US Deputy Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, to learn about ways of legislation in Venezuela by visiting the Latin American country.

President Maduro further called on the Venezuelan opposition and its backers in the US to stop stealing government resources through fake institutions.

The Venezuelan head of state broke off relations with the US when the administration of then-President Donald Trump said it would refuse to recognize the Latin American nation's election results of the previous year, which had reinstated Maduro in power.

Washington instead began throwing its weight behind opposition figure, Juan Guaido, as Venezuela's so-called interim president.

ME