Trump and his top advisers have previously hinted at their willingness to work with acting president Delcy Rodríguez
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.
We start with news that president Donald Trump is set to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House later today.
Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected by then-president Nicolás Maduro before the United States captured him in an audacious military raid this month, AP reported.
Less than two weeks after US forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges, Trump will host the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Machado, having already dismissed her credibility to run Venezuela and raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in the country.
