Trump to Meet With Venezuela's Rodríguez in New York

Is the U.S. rewarding a torture machine's commander with recognition or pragmatically locking in peace and cheaper gas?

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Trump to Meet With Venezuela's Rodríguez in New York

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Above: Chris Wright speaks with Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Sept. 2, 2026. Image credit: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

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Anti-Maduro narrative

Maduro sits in a cell, but the machine he ran is still humming. Delcy Rodríguez built and commanded the intelligence apparatus that tortures, disappears and jails Venezuelans, and arrests are still piling up. Handing recognition and oil money to Marxists who despise America repeats the Nixon-China blunder, and Venezuela will eventually use that leverage against the U.S.

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Pro-Maduro narrative

Venezuela chose survival over a suicidal war, and that was the right call. Iraq and Libya show what happens when oil states get flattened: hundreds of thousands dead, shattered economies and decades of chaos. The opposition extremists who spent years begging Washington for sanctions and intervention got exactly what they ordered and now can't stomach it.

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Pro-Trump narrative

The White House agenda hasn't budged an inch since Maduro's arrest, no matter how loud the pressure campaign gets. Rodríguez has been signaling she's looking forward, and a meeting with Trump in New York locks in that shift. The Trump administration's work in Venezuela means lower gas prices for American drivers and real hope for millions.

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