VENEZUELA’S caretaker president Delcy Rodriguez on Tuesday appointed a former central bank director to her cabinet’s top economic post, one she herself had held until the toppling of leftist leader Nicolas Maduro.
Rodriguez picked Calixto Ortega Sanchez, who led Venezuela’s central bank from 2018 to 2025 and also has a background in the oil industry.
It was her first cabinet change since being sworn in as interim president Monday, two days after a US military strike that led to Maduro being whisked away in handcuffs to stand trial in New York.
Rodriguez held the same economic portfolio Sanchez will now take over, while she also served as Maduro’s vice president and oversaw Venezuela’s key hydrocarbons sector.
In a statement on state TV, she said the government hoped “to consolidate” last year’s numbers going forward — citing a projection of the ECLAC regional economic commission of 6.5 per cent growth for Venezuela in 2025.
AFP
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