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Washington's caller apical diplomat successful Venezuela said that successful a gathering Monday (February 2, 2026) with the country's interim president she addressed the contented of a modulation aft the ouster of Nicolas Maduro.
Chief of ngo Laura Dogu said connected X that she talked with Delcy Rodriguez astir U.S. plans for "stabilization, economical recovery, reconciliation and transition."
Ms. Dogu's statement, released connected the U.S. Embassy's account, was accompanied by a photograph of her speaking with Rodriguez.
In summation to gathering with Ms. Dogu, Ms. Rodriguez made respective cardinal appointments to her statesmanlike furniture connected Monday (February 2, 2026), including tapping erstwhile Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia to pb Venezuela's diplomatic ngo successful the United States.
His assignment marked a pivotal alteration successful diplomatic relations betwixt Caracas and Washington, which were severed successful 2019 aft the United States refused to admit Maduro's re-election, alternatively opting to enactment a parallel authorities led by then-opposition person Juan Guaido.
Ms. Rodriguez besides appointed Daniella Cabello — the girl of Venezuela's almighty interior minister, Diosdado Cabello — arsenic her Cabinet's Tourism Minister.
Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado told reporters during a video telephone Monday (February 2, 2026) that she would beryllium consenting to conscionable with Ms. Rodriguez "if it's necessary" successful bid to found a "transition timeline."
"If it's indispensable to speech ideas successful a gathering to specify a modulation timeline, it volition happen," she said during the call, according to a transcript.
However, she added that Ms. Rodriguez's interim authorities "is inactive the mafia. They whitethorn person different name, but they are the mafia."
