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Siguen los cambios en Venezuela: Delcy Rodríguez fusiona dos ministerios y nombra canciller a Félix Plasencia

By CNN

La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, anunció este lunes la fusión de los ministerios de Relaciones Exteriores y de Comercio Exterior y designó al diplomático Félix Plasencia como titular del nuevo Ministerio del Poder Popular de Relaciones y Comercio Exterior, en una nueva reestructuración de su gabinete en medio de las críticas por la gestión de los terremotos que sacudieron al país a finales de junio.

“Anuncio al país que he decidido fusionar los Ministerios del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores y Comercio Exterior, que pasarán a conformar el nuevo Ministerio del Poder Popular de Relaciones y Comercio Exterior”, escribió Rodríguez en un mensaje en su cuenta de X.

La mandataria señaló que Plasencia, quien ya ocupó la Cancillería entre agosto de 2021 y mayo de 2022 y hasta ahora se desempeñaba como encargado de negocios de Venezuela en Estados Unidos, tendrá la misión de “dirigir la política exterior venezolana, defender nuestra soberanía, fortalecer las relaciones de cooperación e impulsar la diplomacia de paz en el mundo”.

Con el cambio, Yván Gil deja la Cancillería y pasará a ocupar el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, mientras que Johan Álvarez, quien encabezaba la cartera de Comercio Exterior desde marzo, sale del gabinete. Rodríguez agradeció su gestión y señaló que asumirá “nuevas responsabilidades”.

Plasencia había sido designado en febrero como encargado de negocios en Washington, en medio del acercamiento entre Venezuela y Estados Unidos tras la captura de Nicolás Maduro en enero de este año durante un operativo militar estadounidense.

La fusión de ambos ministerios se suma a los siete cambios que Rodríguez ha realizado en su gabinete desde los terremotos que sacudieron Venezuela hace poco más de dos semanas. Los cambios se han concentrado en áreas económicas, de infraestructura y de atención a la emergencia, mientras el Gobierno intenta responder a una de las mayores crisis humanitarias que ha enfrentado el país en los últimos años.

Hasta este lunes, el balance oficial reportaba 4.561 personas fallecidas y cerca de 18.000 personas que perdieron sus casas por los terremotos.

Muchos ciudadanos venezolanos han expresado su descontento y consideran lenta e insuficiente la respuesta gubernamental a la tragedia. Rodríguez ha rechazado esas críticas, sostiene que las autoridades actuaron con rapidez desde las primeras horas de la emergencia y asegura que todas las personas afectadas recibirán atención.

Plasencia, de 64 años, es un diplomático de carrera con trayectoria en el servicio exterior venezolano desde la década de 1990 y es cercano a Rodríguez. Ha ocupado cargos como embajador en China y Colombia.

Analistas y personas familiarizadas con su trayectoria lo describen como una de las figuras más pragmáticas y conciliadoras del chavismo en materia diplomática, un perfil que cobra relevancia en momentos en que Caracas busca consolidar el proceso de normalización de relaciones con el Gobierno de Donald Trump.

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Why no one knows what to expect from the Fed decision today

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Washington (CNN) — The Federal Reserve has been unusually silent about the future path of interest rates, with Chairman Kevin Warsh offering few signals as policymakers grapple with renewed inflation concerns and a murkier economic outlook.Fed officials will have a chance to clarify their thinking when they announce their latest rate decision at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, followed by Warsh’s post-meeting news conference at 2:30 p.m. ET.Inflation slowed sharply in June, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, largely due to lower energy prices that month as tensions briefly eased in the war with Iran. The encouraging inflation report prompted investors to scale back expectations that the Fed would need to raise interest rates for the first time since July 2023 in order to keep price pressures in check.But the conflict in the Middle East escalated earlier this month, triggering a spike in global energy prices last week. Tensions have eased in recent days, prompting energy prices to decline accordingly. However, shipping through two key waterways — the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Hormuz — remains subdued. Nearly a quarter of the world’s oil flows through the region. Meanwhile, Fed officials are debating how the rapid adoption of AI could impact inflation.The economic crosscurrents have made it difficult to understand where inflation is headed. Compounding that uncertainty, Warsh has declined to offer clear guidance on interest rates. Ahead of this week’s policy meeting, markets are split on whether the Fed will hold its benchmark lending rate steady for the fifth consecutive time or deliver a rate hike.It’s a lack of clarity not seen in years.“The Fed is looking at all these inflationary impulses and determining if they will be there over the longer term,” Narayana Kocherlakota, an economics professor at the University of Rochester and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, told CNN.“But it’s becoming very difficult to know what the Fed is going to do in the next few months, because Chair Warsh has been studiously uncommunicative about how the Fed is going to react to these changes in economic conditions,” Kocherlakota said.‘A complete unforced error’Warsh has long signaled that he intended to ditch a long-held practice known as “forward guidance.”Since 2000, Fed officials have generally used forward guidance to give investors a clearer sense of where interest rates were headed, arguing that greater transparency makes monetary policy more effective. But in his confirmation hearing in April, Warsh said he wouldn’t speculate on the economy’s path as chairman.With the Fed’s next move still an open question, it’s unclear whether Warsh’s break from decades of Fed communication has reduced — or amplified — uncertainty.“It’s going to lead to market volatility,” said Kocherlakota. “It makes businesses more reluctant to invest, meaning they’ll be less likely to demand workers to build the kinds of goods and services … because they’re uncertain about what the Fed is going to be doing.”“That kind of uncertainty, in my view, is a complete unforced error on the part of the Fed,” he added.On the other hand, some argue that Fed officials have in recent years spoken too frequently about the economy.“We got to a point where the dissection of the Fed’s forward guidance was so acutely broken down into parts that I’m not sure it helped in the way it was meant to help either,” said Kezia Samuel, chief market strategist at wealth management firm AssetMark.Risks of higher inflationFed officials largely agree that the central bank shouldn’t respond to higher energy prices with interest rate hikes because those costs are expected to come down on their own.“Conventional wisdom among central bankers is to look through one-time price increases, such as those associated with higher tariffs and a jump in oil prices,” Fed Governor Christopher Waller said this month.However, if price pressures persist, there’s a far greater the risk that inflation broadens well beyond the energy market. That could begin to erode Americans’ faith that inflation will eventually slow toward the Fed’s 2% annual target.To get a sense of inflation’s direction, central bankers focus on so-called core measures of inflation that strip out volatile food and energy prices. Core inflation gives economists and policymakers a good sense of how persistent price pressures may be, and to gauge Americans’ view of prices, officials look at market- and survey-based measures of inflation expectations.Neither of those measures warrant imminent rate hikes, but that could change if the Iran war spirals out of control or persists for an extended period.Meanwhile, Fed officials are closely watching Big Tech’s massive spending on AI data centers, which was discussed at the Fed’s June policy meeting.“Many participants noted that ongoing strong demand for AI infrastructure would likely sustain upward pressure on prices for technology products and electricity,” the meeting’s minutes read. “Most participants remarked that growth in economic activity that exceeded that of potential output, owing in part to strong AI business investment, could contribute to more persistent inflationary pressures.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. 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