{"id":11847,"date":"2026-01-15T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/white-house-praises-venezuelas-interim-leader-trump-meets-opposition-figure\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:45:09","slug":"white-house-praises-venezuelas-interim-leader-trump-meets-opposition-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/white-house-praises-venezuelas-interim-leader-trump-meets-opposition-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"White House praises Venezuela&#8217;s interim leader, Trump meets opposition figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Shtepia-e-Bardhe-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The White House praised relations with Venezuela&#8217;s interim authorities, as US President Donald Trump met with one of the country&#8217;s opposition figures, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, &#8220;have been in constant communication&#8221; with Venezuela&#8217;s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, following the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, describing the interim government as &#8220;extraordinary.&#8221; cooperative&#8221; with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have so far met all the demands and requests of the United States and the president,&#8221; Leavitt said, citing the sale of $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil and the release of political prisoners from Caracas. &#8220;The president likes what he is seeing and expects this cooperation to continue,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come at a time when Trump is hosting Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado at the White House for a closed-door lunch. Details on the meeting are scarce, but Leavitt said it was &#8220;in progress&#8221; as she briefed reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the president was looking forward to this meeting and expected it to be a good, positive discussion with Ms. Machado,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House praised relations with Venezuela&#8217;s interim authorities, as US President Donald Trump met with one of the country&#8217;s opposition figures, Anadolu reports. Spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, &#8220;have been in constant communication&#8221; with Venezuela&#8217;s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, following the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, describing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-11847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":99,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11849,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions\/11849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}