Rodríguez denied that the opposition has any intention to pay for the purchase of vaccines through the Covax mechanism. | Photo: National Assembly Venezuela

Caracas, April 14 (RHC)--The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, appeared this Tuesday at a press conference to provide new evidence of the theft of resources from the country by the most extremist sector of the Venezuelan opposition.

"We are going to show you some things that occurred yesterday (this Monday), a double swindle, a double theft, with a meeting that took place yesterday with some former deputies members of a terrorist group called Voluntad Popular," said Rodríguez.

The head of the National Assembly said that the meeting was attended by opposition figures Marco Aurelio Quiñones, Sergio Vergara, Franco Casella, Winston Flores, Adriana Pichardo and Freddy Superlano.  The reason for the meeting was to agree on the conformation of a "budget" for the parallel structure of Government that they intend to have established.  The so-called budget would be submitted to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States, so that it releases the funds of the amount that the U.S. keeps frozen to Venezuela.

Rodríguez detailed that this "budget" amounts to the sum of 53.2 million dollars, and denounced that the real purpose of obtaining this money is to distribute it among the leadership of this sector of the opposition.