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Acting president of Venezuela since 2026
Yes — President Donald Trump publicly styled himself as the “Acting President of Venezuela” by sharing a doctored/mock-up image on his Truth Social account that labeled him as such, a move widely repo...
Venezuelans are not uniformly happy with the current state of the country; reactions range from ecstatic celebration among many in the diaspora to cautious hope, deep uncertainty and outright anger in...
No — Donald Trump is not the president of Venezuela; after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as the country’s interim or actin...
The short answer: day‑to‑day authority in Caracas is being exercised by Vice‑President Delcy Rodríguez, who was sworn in as acting president after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, but real power remains disp...
María Corina Machado has publicly and repeatedly aligned herself with President Donald Trump on the Venezuela crisis—praising his actions, offering to “share” or even give him her 2025 Nobel Peace Pri...
The Trump administration oversaw a decisive U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife and brought them to New York on narco‑terrorism charges, but whether ...
Venezuela’s written legal mechanism for replacing a detained president is anchored in Article 233 of the 1999 Constitution: the vice president is first in line to assume the executive in the event of ...
The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was carried out by the executive branch without clear prior congressional authorization and immediately prompted legal and political challeng...
The short answer: Venezuela has not been fully "seized" as a unitary, settled possession by the United States, but it has undergone an unprecedented external intervention in which U.S. forces captured...
A sudden and dramatic escalation in Venezuela dominated recent headlines after U.S. military action resulted in the capture and removal of President Nicolás Maduro, prompting immediate regional shock ...
Il Brasile, guidato dal presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ha condannato con fermezza l'azione militare statunitense in Venezuela definendola una «gravissima offesa» alla sovranità nazionale e una ...
Il governo venezuelano ha risposto all'operazione militare statunitense con una condanna netta parlando di «gravissima aggressione militare», ha dichiarato lo stato d’emergenza e ha messo in campo mis...
The United States, at President Donald Trump’s direction, conducted a military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face U.S. criminal charges, an ac...
Nicolás Maduro, long the de facto leader of Venezuela, was captured and flown to the United States in a U.S. military operation on Jan. 3, 2026, according to multiple news reports and U.S. statements ...
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was reported to be in Russia on Jan. 3, 2026 by Reuters, which cited four sources familiar with her movements . That account has been widely republished by ot...
The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court ordered Vice‑President Delcy Rodríguez to assume the role of acting president after President Nicolás Maduro was detained in a U.S. operation on...
Delcy Rodríguez’s public record, as reflected in the reporting provided, contains explicit condemnations of Israel and rhetoric aligned with pro-Palestinian positions; there are no sourced statements ...
A short legal answer: under Venezuela’s constitution the vice president would assume the presidency in the event of an “absolute absence” of the president, which points to Delcy Rodríguez as the immed...
The statement accurately links the USS Gerald R. Ford’s Caribbean deployment to rising U.S. military activity in the region while also correctly noting persistent political exclusion of Puerto Rico th...