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Posted on 01/08/2026 9:36:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, said on Jan. 7 that the South American nation is open to establishing new energy relationships based on commercial agreements and mutual benefit, marking a potential shift in policy following the removal of former leader Nicolás Maduro.
Rodriguez made the remarks during a meeting with members of Venezuela’s National Assembly of Venezuela in Caracas.
“Venezuela is open to energy relations where all parties benefit, where economic cooperation is very clearly defined in commercial contracts. That is our position, and the diversification of our energy relations,” she told the assembly.
She noted Venezuela’s large oil and gas reserves, adding that these resources must serve national development, as well as the development of other countries.
“This is how our oil industry was born, with an export-oriented vocation,” Rodriguez said.
Venezuela’s oil sector holds the world’s largest proven reserves but has been mismanaged and financially neglected for years. Oil output has fallen from more than 3 million barrels per day in the early 2000s to less than 1 million barrels per day in recent years, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
“The combined impact of domestic mismanagement and international sanctions has driven its production down from over 3 million barrels a day in the early 2000s to about 2 million [barrels per day] in 2017 and 0.9 million [barrels per day] in 2025,” energy research and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie said in a Dec. 5 report.
Rodriguez’s comments came days after U.S. forces captured Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 3. The former leader was transferred to the United States, where he appeared in federal court and pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges, according to U.S. officials.
Following Maduro’s removal, Rodriguez, who served as Maduro’s deputy, assumed interim leadership. U.S. authorities said Washington would exercise oversight of the transitional government.
Rodriguez told lawmakers that her interim administration is willing to “engage in relations of respect with the world.”
“We want to move toward a law on the rational use of energy,” she said on Jan. 7. “We are an energy power. We truly are. And that has brought us enormous problems.” She said that foreign pressure on Venezuela historically centered on its hydrocarbon wealth.
“As you know, the energy voracity of the North wants the resources of our country. And we have denounced this,” Rodriguez said.
“All the false claims about drug trafficking, democracy, and human rights were not the real reasons. They were excuses. Because what has always been present is that Venezuela’s oil must be handed over to the Global North.”
The United States has said it is working to curb drug trafficking linked to Venezuela. According to an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Maduro and five co-conspirators were charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and weapons offenses.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said his administration plans to encourage U.S. oil companies to invest capital, technology, and operational expertise in Venezuela’s energy sector.
Trump said Venezuela could return to full production within 18 months, allowing the country to generate revenue needed to rebuild roads, power grids, and other infrastructure. After Maduro’s capture, the president warned Rodríguez that she could face worse consequences than Maduro if she didn’t “do what’s right” and seek to align the nation more with U.S. interests.
Trump said on Jan. 6 that the United States would soon receive 30 million to 50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan oil from the South American nation.
“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” Trump said in a post announcing an oil transfer agreement on Truth Social.
He said that he had asked U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright “to execute this plan, immediately.”
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Venezuela’s Interim Leader Delcy Rodriguez Signals Openness to Continue Breathing
There, fixed it
Good idea that she is open to the idea of remaining alive.
Ya beat me to it!
Delcy is not a legitimately elected leader and is nothing more than a mini-me Maduro, so the paper containing any agreement she signs is less valuable than a roll of decent toilet paper ... in fact, all parts of the current venezuelan government are corrupt kleptocrats ... thus ANY transnational petro company would be insane to invest billions in infrastructure only to have it “nationalized” after it was finished ... in fact, they’d be insane to invest even a single cent ...
Zerohedge quotes her saying that no foreign power is in a position of governance in her country.
And this article above quotes are saying that she is willing to sell oil to buyers, which is not restricted to one country.
I don’t see America sending troops to garrison that place and become sniper bait and casualty accumulation, particularly in a midterm year.
Oh and by the way, Venezuela oil production has indeed dropped several million barrels per day over a period of years. Fields do go empty.
But don’t trust her.
She is the stepdaughter of Marxist / Islamist Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal and has been the finance chief of the narco state.
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Nine years in jail for Jackal helper
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Kate Connolly in Berlin
Thu 15 Feb 2001 21.27 EST
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Hans-Joachim Klein was sentenced by a Frankfurt court yesterday to nine years in prison for murder, attempted murder and hostage-taking, acts which took place in 1975 at the Opec oil ministers’ meeting in Vienna.
Klein, 53, was part of a six-man terrorist unit led by the Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, which attacked the Opec session, shooting dead an Austrian policeman, an Iraqi bodyguard and a Libyan delegate, and taking 70 people hostage.
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There is a reason for that, lol.
A committed Marxist–Leninist, [Carlos the Jackal] was one of the most notorious political terrorists of his era,[1][2][3] protected and supported by the Stasi and the KGB.[4]...
After attending the Third Tricontinental Conference in January 1966 with his father, Ilich reportedly spent the summer at Camp Matanzas, a guerrilla warfare school run by the Cuban DGI near Havana....
...His mother took the children to London, where she studied at Stafford House College in Kensington and the London School of Economics. In 1968, José tried to enroll Ilich and his brother at the Sorbonne in Paris, but eventually opted for the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. According to the BBC, it was “a notorious hotbed for recruiting foreign communists to the Soviet Union”...
Sánchez joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1970,...
In 2017, Carlos claimed responsibility for 80 deaths and boasted that “no one in the Palestinian resistance has executed more people than I have.”[57]
In his 2003 book, Revolutionary Islam, Ramírez Sánchez professed his admiration for the Iranian Revolution, writing that “Today, confronted by the threat to Civilization, there is a response: revolutionary Islam! Only men and women armed with a total faith in the founding values of truth, justice, and fraternity will be prepared to lead the combat and deliver humanity from the empire of mendacity.”[68] He also praised Osama bin Laden and the September 11 attacks, portraying it as a “lofty feat” to liberate the Islamic Holy Lands and advance the Palestinian cause.[69]....
LSofE is a hive of Marxists.
Yep
Update...
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2009606577029108112
It’s a screenshot from, I suspect, his Truth Social account, so I can’t cut and past the text, but some great news for the freedom-loving people of Venezuela.
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