MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2026, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[Delcy Rodríguez tells the UN there will be elections in Venezuela, without setting a date]]> It was the first address by a Venezuelan head of state to the body's plenary since 2018, when Nicolás Maduro spoke Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced on Wednesday before the United Nations General Assembly that her country will hold elections, without specifying when, and thanked US President Donald Trump for "his willingness to return to the path of diplomatic relations and cooperation".

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:47:00 GMT <![CDATA[Machado's team says three attempts to return to Venezuela failed in 24 hours]]> Asked about the matter, Trump denied having told her not to return, saying he had said nothing to her about it The circle around Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said this week that three attempts to return to Venezuela from Panama, by sea and by air, were thwarted within roughly 24 hours. One was recorded in a flight manifest placing her among the passengers of an aircraft that never took off; the document does not establish why.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:11:00 GMT <![CDATA[Delcy Rodríguez calls her meeting with Trump "historic" and thanks him for his support]]> Hours earlier, in his address to the General Assembly, Trump had called Maduro an “outlaw dictator” and said hundreds of political prisoners had been freed since his capture in January Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, described her first meeting with US President Donald Trump as "historic". The encounter took place on Tuesday evening in New York behind closed doors and with no press access. Her post on the social network X is the only available account of what was discussed: the White House confirmed the meeting and those present but released no agenda or outcomes.

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:55:00 GMT <![CDATA[Delcy Rodríguez arrives in New York for UN General Assembly, ahead of meeting with Trump]]> Her address to the General Assembly is scheduled for Thursday, September 24 Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, arrived in New York in the early hours of Monday to take part in the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, days ahead of a planned meeting with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:15:00 GMT <![CDATA[US investigates ICE shooting of Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin]]> An ICE agent got out of an unmarked truck, rammed Garcés Pérez's vehicle, then exited and fired at least five times An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan man on Sunday in Austin, Texas, while he was making a delivery for DoorDash, in an incident the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it is investigating alongside the FBI and which prompted calls for an independent investigation from local officials.

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:44:00 GMT <![CDATA[Trump and Delcy Rodríguez to meet in New York, first encounter with a Venezuelan leader in 11 years]]> US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz confirmed Rodríguez's trip on Friday and said the meeting would be “informal” rather than a “formal bilateral,” what is diplomatically known as a “pull-aside” US President Donald Trump will meet on Tuesday with Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, in what will be the first encounter between a US president and a Venezuelan leader in more than eleven years, since the brief meeting between Barack Obama and Nicolás Maduro at the Summit of the Americas in Panama in 2015.

]]> Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:23:00 GMT <![CDATA[US removes Venezuela and Bolivia from list of countries failing on drugs]]> The United States government removed Venezuela and Bolivia from the category of countries that Washington says have failed to demonstrably combat international drug trafficking, while keeping Colombia, Afghanistan and Myanmar on that list. The determination, sent to Congress on Tuesday and released by the State Department on Wednesday, is part of the annual assessment of the 23 countries deemed major drug transit or producing states, five of which had been designated last year as having "failed demonstrably."

]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:35:00 GMT <![CDATA[Businessman named by Washington as Maduro's frontman admits guilt in a Miami court]]> The change of plea hearing was set before Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida. Saab, 54, faced a single count carrying a maximum of twenty years in prison Colombian businessman Alex Saab, identified by the US Treasury Department as Nicolás Maduro's principal frontman, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a federal court in Miami to conspiracy to launder money linked to Venezuela's CLAP subsidized food program.

]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:04:00 GMT <![CDATA[Lacalle Pou demands elections in Venezuela and reopens Uruguay's foreign policy debate]]> Former Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou has called for a democratic transition in Venezuela and questioned the terms of the oil agreement reached between the United States and Delcy Rodríguez's government, in an intervention that has revived debate over Uruguay's international position.

]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:31:00 GMT <![CDATA[Investment banks warn the Venezuela deal will not bring down fuel prices]]> UBS argues that Venezuelan output will take years to recover and that the impact on prices will be limited in the short term Leading financial analysis firms have tempered the White House's forecasts on the Venezuelan oil agreement announced by Donald Trump on Friday, which grants a company part-owned by the US government control of seventeen fields holding some 65 billion barrels of reserves for a hundred years.

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