Who was the woman from the Venezuelan delegation who read during Trump's speech and what was she reading?

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(CNN Spanish) - While the president of the United States, Donald Trump, gave his speech at the 74th UN General Assembly in New York, the cameras focused on an unusual scene where the Venezuelan delegation sits.

While the US president fired attacks on the questioned president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, calling him "dictator" and "Cuban puppet", at the Venezuelan desk in the UN room, a woman reading a book could be seen.

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"The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, that hides from his own people, while Cuba looted Venezuela's oil wealth to maintain its own corrupt and communist government," Trump said.

Meanwhile, the woman looked up from time to time and continued reading a hardcover book.

The book is titled "Bolívar, hero, genius and universal thinking", as CNN could confirm from several photographs of the moment.

The woman who read it is Daniela Alejandra Rodríguez Martínez, advisor to the second Venezuelan committee at the UN, according to records of the organization, part of the official delegation of Venezuela.

She tweeted on her account showing the book and saying that that was what she read while Trump "desecrated the UN General Assembly with his xenophobic and imperialist speech."

# 24Sep This is the book I read while @realDonaldTrump, desecrated the General Assembly of the #ONU with its xenophobic and imperialist discourse. Long live Bolivar! Long live Venezuela! Long live the Venezuelan people who do not bow to any empire! #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/A47SzTEgl8

- Daniela Rodríguez (@danialerodrimar) September 24, 2019

Rodriguez's gesture during Trump's speech attracted the attention of global media and social networks and was one of the most commented scenes on the morning of this Tuesday.

Venezuelan UN delegate reading a book while Trump talks about Venezuela is a mood. (What's the book?) Pic.twitter.com/qy3h0BFoIw

- Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) September 24, 2019

The Venezuela A delegate is reading a book during Trump's speech. #UNGA pic.twitter.com/X3EUIjzjHf

- Arizona Political 💎 (@AZVotes) September 24, 2019

While Trump speaks at the UN the Venezuelan ambassador reads a book about Bolivar https://t.co/Ayn2iQc3ji

- CaribeFre (E) (@ luismer54971817) September 24, 2019

Rodríguez is an internationalist, according to his Twitter profile, and defines himself as a "Bolivarianist".

As for the book, the author is Iván Guillermo Rincón Urdaneta, from 2016. Urdaneta was Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia from 2010 to 2018, when he resigned.

The book, whose text is not online or available in the main e-commerce sites, is, according to a review by the Colombian Communist Party “refers to two central and characteristic points of the Liberator: The political and military work and its political thought. The ideology itself, expressed in proclamations, documents and letters. Ideas that are still being discussed today, attacking and defending, which indicates that their thinking remains in force ”.

Two delegations from Venezuela arrived in New York for the General Assembly of the United Nations. Both Maduro and the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, sent their representatives to the meeting.

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