C.I.A. Director Meets With Venezuela’s Interim President in Caracas
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas, signaling U.S. support for the interim government amid ongoing political instability.
- This visit marks the highest-level U.S. official presence in Venezuela since the U.S. military's recent raid that seized President Nicolás Maduro.
- The meeting, directed by President Trump, focused on intelligence cooperation, economic stability, and preventing Venezuela from being a safe haven for adversaries and narco-traffickers.
- Ratcliffe's engagement with Rodríguez may be viewed as sidelining the opposition, despite Trump's simultaneous outreach to opposition leader María Corina Machado.
- The U.S. continues to navigate complex political dynamics, as opposition figures contest Maduro's refusal to relinquish
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