The CIA publishes the image of the meeting between its director and Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas while Trump received Machado

He is the first member of Trump’s Cabinet and the Highest-ranking American official visiting the Venezuelan capital after the successful lightning military operation by the Delta Force that extracted Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and took them to New York to be tried for drug trafficking.

And it also occurred on the same day that the Republican president received the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner at the White House, quite discreetly. Maria Corina Machado. Despite this, Trump’s press chief, Karoline Leavitt, had no qualms in praising Delcy Rodríguez: “She has been extremely collaborative and has fulfilled everything we have asked for“.

According to reports The New York TimesRatcliffe conveyed to Delcy during their meeting in Caracas the message that the US Administration sees in the interim Government of Venezuela the best path to stability in the country in the short term, emphasizing the need for collaboration.

The source cited by the newspaper explained that The CIA director traveled on Trump’s orders to tell Maduro’s former vice president and key figure of Chavismo that “the United States looks forward to a better working relationship.” Issues focused on how to improve intelligence sharing or what to do so that Venezuela stops being a “safe haven for US adversaries, especially drug traffickers,” were also addressed.

Ratcliffe’s visit, according to the Trump Administration, represents support for the figure of Delcy Rodríguez and a signal to continue cultivating trust and collaboration between Washington and Caracas. In fact, on Thursday the new president also presented in the National Assembly a bill for a partial reform of the Organic Hydrocarbons Law that would allow the system to be liberalized.

Delcy, who addressed the nation this Thursday under the pretext of the annual review of the course, committed to hold the presidency “until there can be a transition” and he let his people know that he would fight the “diplomatic battle” to keep his relations with China, Russia, Cuba, Iran “and with all the peoples of the world and, at the same time, with the United States.”

The day before, the president had maintained a telephone conversation with Trumpwhich the American president defined as “fascinating.” Shortly afterward he deepened his compliments, describing Delcy as a “fantastic” person. He had only said of María Corina Machado that she was a “nice woman”, but that she had neither “respect” nor “support” within Venezuela.

A classified CIA report presented to Trump before the military operation to capture Maduro on January 3 already indicated Delcy as the figure as a greater capacity to guarantee institutional stabilitycontrol the Army and avoid a collapse of the State. According to the NOWRodríguez had already participated in the negotiations to renew the leadership in Venezuela through diplomatic means that did not come to fruition.

The pragmatic stance of the Trump Administration is proof that the US seems to have learned from his past mistakes and other military interventions. In Iraq, the Government of George W. Bush decided to dismantle the government and the military apparatus, unleashing a time of instability and insurgency that claimed thousands of lives, including those of American soldiers.