#Delcy Rodríguez

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Valencia bar association, in Venezuela, in October 2023.

Transition in Venezuela

Machado and Edmundo González back the US plan to declare Venezuela's presidency vacant

The official portrait of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, released by the State Department in January 2025. Rubio is leading the talks with Caracas.

Washington is negotiating a status of forces agreement that could keep US troops in Venezuela long term

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Colegio de Abogados de Valencia, Venezuela, in October 2023.

María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months away and says she is willing to sit down with Delcy Rodríguez

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Valencia Bar Association in Venezuela, in October 2023.

Machado says Washington shut her out of the Caracas talks, and vows to return to Venezuela

Maracaibo without electricity in the early hours of 31 January 2026, during one of the blackouts that keep recurring in Zulia state.

Blackouts of up to 16 hours spark protests in four Venezuelan states

Delcy Rodríguez, then Venezuela's foreign minister, at the 49th Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, in December 2015.

Delcy Rodríguez promises elections in Venezuela at the UN, but sets no date