Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez meets Donald Trump in New York in what both sides describe as a historic encounter. Reporting says the private pull-aside occurs at a Trump-hosted reception at the Lotte Palace Hotel in Manhattan, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
The meeting is portrayed as the first between the two leaders since US forces capture and depose former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in January. The Guardian reports Rodríguez agrees to a US-led oil deal estimated at 65 billion barrels, and she publicly celebrates the meeting without stating whether she will visit Maduro, who is reported held in a Brooklyn jail following a special forces raid.
The accounts emphasize different details—one highlights the setting as a Trump-hosted event, while the other focuses on the oil agreement and the lack of comment on Maduro’s detention. Both, however, place the meeting in the same timeframe and location and link it to the post–January changes in Venezuela’s leadership and US-Venezuela relations.
