For a brief moment, some Venezuelans allowed themselves to celebrate. By Monday, however, those feelings had been replaced by fear, dread and uncertainty.

Rodríguez's outreach during the first Trump administration made her a prominent face in U.S. business and political circles and paved the way for her own rise.

The New York Times has been on the ground in the country since at least the 1880s, through celebration, suffering and political turmoil.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the U.S. is in "close correspondence" with interim Venezuelan authorities after the toppling of the Maduro regime.

The Trump administration has outlined a number of demands that Venezuela must agree to in order to resume oil production, two senior White House officials told CNN.

The three-part plan unveiled by the secretary of state included Washington managing the interim authorities in Caracas. Earlier, the U.S. forces boarded a Russian-flagged tanker and a second ship. Nicholas Nehamas Eric Schmitt and Julian E.

Heavy gunfire and reports of suspicious drone activity near Venezuela's presidential palace raised new security fears in Caracas on Tuesday night, as the country remains tense after the US-led operation that led to the capture and removal of President Nicolas Maduro.

Oil producer Chevron is in talks with the U.S. government to expand a key license to operate in Venezuela so it can increase crude exports to its own refineries and sell to other buyers, four sources close to the negotiations said on Wednesday.

Delcy Rodríguez is Venezuela’s new president, but the country’s powerful defense and interior ministers could decide the future of Chavismo — and the nation.