Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, has offered to work with the US, dialing down the confrontational tone she intially adopted after the capture of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. Rodríguez has effectively been running Venezuela since Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured on Saturday. 1:50 Anger, confusion and joy: Venezuelans react to Maduro's capture – videoIn her first public appearance after Maduro’s capture on Saturday, Rodríguez initially struck a defiant tone, declaring that Venezuela would “never again be anyone’s colony”. On Sunday night, however, she struck a markedly more conciliatory tone after chairing her first cabinet meeting. Addressing the US president directly, she wrote: “President Donald Trump: our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2026 17:36 UTC