{"id":89137,"date":"2026-01-05T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:09:15","slug":"trump-threatens-venezuelas-new-leader-delcy-rodriguez-with-a-fate-worse-than-maduro-if-she-doesnt-work-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89137\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Venezuela’s new leader Delcy Rodriguez with a fate worse than Maduro if she doesn’t work with US"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump warned Sunday that if newly-appointed Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodriguez fails to fall in line with his vision for reform, she likely suffer a worse fate than captured President Nicolas Maduro.<\/a><\/p>\n

Following Rodriguez\u2019s condemnation of the US operation that saw Maduro arrested<\/a> and flown to a New York City jail, Trump made it clear that he would not stand for any defiance from the long-time socialist who he had tapped to run Venezuela in the interim.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she doesn\u2019t do what\u2019s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,\u201d\u00a0Trump told The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Trump issued a warning to Venezuela\u2019s Delcy Rodriguez on Sunday. NICOLE COMBEAU\/POOL\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The warning was a major shift from the praise Trump poured on Rodriguez on Saturday as the person who he believed was \u201cnecessary to make Venezuela great again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the US president\u2019s endorsement, Rodriguez went on to reject the notion that she would work together with the Trump administration, calling Maduro the<\/a> \u201conly\u201d leader Venezuela needs while saying that the country was \u201cready to defend\u201d its oil reserves from the US.<\/p>\n

Maduro arrives at DEA\u2019s NYC HQ following his arrest in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had already warned that an aggression was underway under false excuses and false pretenses, and that the masks had fallen off, revealing only one objective: regime change in Venezuela,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Following Rodriguez\u2019s fiery speech, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Maduro loyalist cannot serve as Venezuela\u2019s interim leader and vowed that the US would not support her administration.<\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s Vice-President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez addresses the media in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Instead, Rubio pushed for free elections to be held to determine the next leader of the country as the US and other nations never recognized Maduro\u2019s 2024 win.<\/p>\n

Along with the threats against Rodriguez<\/a>, Trump also suggested that the US would carry out a second wave of military actions in Venezuela if he deemed it necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump warned Sunday that if newly-appointed Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodriguez fails to fall in line with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9,11,10,15862,87,42354,42364,58,7318,1076],"class_list":["post-89137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-politics","tag-south-america","tag-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro","tag-us-news","tag-venezuela","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}