{"id":228746,"date":"2026-01-05T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228746\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:00:08","slug":"delcy-rodriguez-strikes-conciliatory-tone-with-us-after-trump-warning-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/228746\/","title":{"rendered":"Delcy Rodr\u00edguez strikes conciliatory tone with US after Trump warning | Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuela\u2019s acting president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, has offered to work with the US, dialing down the confrontational tone she intially adopted after the capture of the dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n

In a statement late on Sunday, Rodr\u00edguez said she had \u201cinvited the US government to work together on an agenda of cooperation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her comments came hours after Donald Trump threatened that Maduro\u2019s former vice-president could \u201cpay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro\u201d if she did not bend to his wishes.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez has effectively been running Venezuela since Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured on Saturday. The couple were taken to New York and are due to appear at a federal court<\/a> in Manhattan on Monday.<\/p>\n

She was sworn in as president by the supreme court on Saturday and, the following, day the heads of the country\u2019s armed forces agreed to recognise her authority, while still demanding the immediate release of Maduro and his wife.<\/p>\n

After the shocking capture and rendition of Maduro on Saturday, Trump said that the US would now \u201crun\u201d Venezuela<\/a>, \u201cuntil such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition\u201d. He also said that the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, had been in touch with Rodr\u00edguez who he claimed had told him: \u201cWe\u2019ll do whatever you need.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he warned the US might launch a second strike if remaining members of the administration do not cooperate with his efforts to get the country \u201cfixed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s move has entirely sidelined the country\u2019s democratic opposition lead by Nobel prizewinner Mar\u00eda Corina Machado. His strategy has been widely criticised by analysts who argue that the regime\u2019s power structure has been left intact \u2013 just without Maduro at its head.<\/p>\n

\"Anger,Anger, confusion and joy: Venezuelans react to Maduro’s capture \u2013 video<\/p>\n

In her first public appearance after Maduro\u2019s capture on Saturday, Rodr\u00edguez initially struck a defiant tone, declaring that Venezuela would \u201cnever again be anyone\u2019s colony\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, however, she struck a markedly more conciliatory tone after chairing her first cabinet meeting. Rodr\u00edguez released a message saying she considered an \u201cbalanced and respectful\u201d relationship with the US to be a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe extend an invitation to the government of the US to work jointly on an agenda of cooperation, aimed at shared development, within the framework of international law, and that strengthens lasting peaceful coexistence,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Addressing the US president directly, she wrote: \u201cPresident Donald Trump: our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war. That has always been President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s conviction and it is that of all Venezuela at this moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the Venezuela I believe in and to which I have dedicated my life. My dream is for Venezuela to become a great power where all decent Venezuelans can come together. Venezuela has the right to peace, development, sovereignty and a future,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Despite the conciliatory tone, the Venezuelan government \u2013 and Rodr\u00edguez herself, via her Telegram channel \u2013 later paid tribute to 32 \u201cCuban combatants\u201d who were part of Maduro\u2019s personal security and who died \u201cas a consequence of the criminal and infamous attack carried out by the US government\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Sunday, the defence minister, Gen Vlad\u00edmir Padrino L\u00f3pez, had said in a statement that US troops had \u201ccold-bloodedly assassinated much of [Maduro\u2019s] security detail, soldiers and innocent civilians\u201d, without providing names or a death toll \u2013 which, according to the New York Times, would be about 80 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s acting president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, has offered to work with the US, dialing down the confrontational tone she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-228746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}