PODCAST: Maduro’s trusted lieutenant now works for Trump?

Many of those who tuned in to U.S. President Donald Trump’s news conference on Saturday were probably hoping to hear dramatic details of how U.S. forces seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a pre-dawn raid.

But arguably a more surprising moment came when Trump announced that now that Maduro was in custody, the U.S. would “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”.

In another unexpected development, he added that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been speaking to Maduro’s Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez who he said was “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again”.

However, Rodríguez seemed less than co-operative in her own news conference later where she denounced Maduro’s detention as a kidnapping and stressed that Venezuela would not become a colony.

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