Delcy Rodríguez highlights “historical” meeting with Trump and promises cooperation

“ We held a historic meeting with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, with whom we talked about strengthening bilateral relations”, Rodríguez wrote on Tuesday, on social network X, about the meeting held on the same day.

The leader added that topics such as cooperation in strategic areas, such as energy, mining and security, were at the heart of the conversation during the meeting, which took place at the Lotte New York Palace hotel, as part of a reception offered by Trump to foreign leaders during the UN High Level Week.

In addition to the leaders, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller participated.

The meeting took place behind closed doors and without access to the press, unlike other meetings held by Trump in New York, such as that held with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The meeting took place shortly after the controversial agreement by which Venezuela gave in to the United States part of the country's oil reserves and a few kilometres from the New York prison where Nicolás Maduro is arrested, charged with drug trafficking.

This is the first meeting between an American President and a Venezuelan ruler in more than eleven years, since the brief meeting that Barack Obama and Nicolás Maduro held during the 2015 Summit in Panama.

The main sign of the approach between Washington and Caracas recently occurred with the announcement of the oil agreement that would allow the United States to control one fifth of Venezuelan oil reserves.

The pact sparked mistrust among sectors that consider that Trump's government is only interested in oil and does not actively promote a democratic transition in Venezuela.