The United States government confirmed this Friday that Donald Trump will meet next Tuesday in New York with the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, during the UN General Assembly, which will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders and the highest-level meeting between Washington and Caracas in more than a decade.
As confirmed by the White House, the meeting between the two leaders will conclude the official agenda of the president during the United Nations High-Level Week, a day in which the Republican leader will address the General Assembly and hold bilateral meetings with the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Japan, as well as with various leaders from the Persian Gulf.
The official confirmation of this meeting was announced after weeks of speculation, as Trump himself spoke last Sunday about the “possibility” of the meeting while several U.S. media outlets reported that both delegations were finalizing logistical details.
Thus, the event will become the first meeting between the leaders of the United States and Venezuela in more than a decade, when Barack Obama and Nicolás Maduro held a brief conversation at a summit in Panama in April 2015.
Since the U.S. military operation carried out last January, where former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was captured and placed under judicial authority on U.S. soil, Washington and Caracas have maintained a “good diplomatic rapport,” interrupted since 2019 by the Maduro government and Washington.
