{"id":57176,"date":"2026-02-13T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/venezuela-s-interim-president-asserts-her-authority-affirms-maduro-s-legitimacy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:36:44","slug":"venezuela-s-interim-president-asserts-her-authority-affirms-maduro-s-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/venezuela-s-interim-president-asserts-her-authority-affirms-maduro-s-legitimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s interim president asserts her authority, affirms Maduro\u2019s legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked who is running Venezuela in a Thursday interview with U.S. broadcaster NBC News, Rodr\u00edguez said, \u201cI can tell you I am in charge of the presidency of Venezuela, as it\u2019s stated clearly in the constitution of Venezuela.\u201d <\/p>\n

She added that her daily workload reflects the seriousness of her role: \u201cFrom the amount of work that I have\u2026 it\u2019s very, very hard work and we\u2019re doing it completely day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comment comes more than a month after U.S. forces captured Maduro in Caracas and transferred him to federal custody in New York on narcoterrorism, drug trafficking and corruption charges, where he has pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n

Despite his detention, Rodr\u00edguez made a clear legal and political defense of her predecessor, saying: \u201cI can tell you President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is the legitimate president\u2026 Both President Maduro and Cilia Flores, the first lady, are both innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez, who once sharply criticised the U.S. military operation, has signalled a shift toward cooperation with Washington. <\/p>\n

She confirmed receiving an invitation to visit the United States, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re contemplating coming there once we establish this cooperation and we can move forward with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interview also took place amid an ongoing visit by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, focused on discussions over Venezuela\u2019s crippled oil industry and potential economic and diplomatic engagement with the interim government.<\/p>\n

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Venezuela\u2019s interim president Delcy Rodr\u00edguez has reiterated that she is the acting head of state and insisted that Nicol\u00e1s Maduro remains the country\u2019s legitimate leader, even as he is detained in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000102088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000102088,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/maduro-in-us-b3a78-b7e9c.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/maduro-in-us-b3a78-b7e9c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/maduro-in-us-b3a78-b7e9c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/maduro-in-us-b3a78-b7e9c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/maduro-in-us-b3a78-b7e9c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/maduro-in-us-b3a78-b7e9c.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000102088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57176"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57176"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}