US Attack on Venezuela New Government

Reports: Rodríguez also wants to meet with Trump

Both opposition politician María Corina Machado and acting president Delcy Rodríguez are working hard to win President Donald Trump's support as Venezuela's new leader, the Wall Street Journal reports.

According to the newspaper's sources, a delegation from Rodríguez's government is planning to travel to Washington to talk about the country's future after the US attack and capture of Nicolás Maduro. That meeting could take place as early as next week, according to the reports.

Trump has previously confirmed that Machado, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025, will come to the United States next week.

"The race to [...] secure the president's blessing underscores how rival power groups in Venezuela are courting the United States in the fight to gain advantages after Maduro's," the WSJ text says.

Expert: Machado has no support in the military or in the state apparatus

The fact that opposition leader María Corina Machado refuses to cooperate with the Maduro regime could be a problem if she wants to become the new Venezuelan leader. This is what political expert Pablo Andrés Quintero tells the Wall Street Journal.

Regardless of who will rule Venezuela after the US captures the country's president, cooperation with the current state apparatus and the military will be important at first. The relationship between Machado and the country's military is frosty, to say the least, according to Quintero.

- She has no influence in either the military or the state apparatus, he says, emphasizing that Machado has previously come into conflict with other opposition leaders.