{"id":685384,"date":"2026-01-09T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:06:33","slug":"trump-says-us-will-decide-which-oil-companies-can-operate-in-venezuela-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685384\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will decide which oil companies can operate in Venezuela – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delcy Rodriguez an ‘ally’ for now – Trumppublished at 21:12 GMT<\/p>\n

21:12 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr<\/strong>
Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n

The president just said that, for now, he sees the government of Acting President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez as an “ally” – a statement that is likely to raise eyebrows among large swathes of the Venezuelan diaspora.<\/p>\n

It’s important to note that Trump has not, to date, framed the mission in Venezuela as “regime change”. <\/p>\n

Instead, oil and drugs have very much been the administration’s public rationale for removing Maduro. <\/p>\n

While he mentioned Mar\u00eda Corina Machado’s visit to the White House next week, Trump did not in any way suggest that she would be in a position of leadership in Venezuela’s future, saying only she could play a role.<\/p>\n

“I have to speak to her,” he added. <\/p>\n

Notably, he also seemed open to Machado handing over her Nobel Prize – which he believes he should have been awarded. <\/p>\n

“But I don’t care about that,” he said. “I care about saving lives.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delcy Rodriguez an ‘ally’ for now – Trumppublished at 21:12 GMT 21:12 GMT Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-685384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115867417509745133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}