cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44135769

Fri 6 Mar 2026 09.00 EST

“I thank President Donald Trump for the kind willingness of his government to work together,” Rodríguez posted on X on Thursday, in perhaps her most unabashed act of genuflection since her ally’s downfall.

Two months after Maduro’s demise, Trump appears keen to replicate “regime capture” model in Iran after its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in Tehran during a devastating Israeli-US operation targeting his base.

“I have to be involved in the appointment [of his successor], like with Delcy in Venezuela,” Trump told the US news website Axios this week.

Speaking to the New York Times, he said: “What we did in Venezuela, I think, is … the perfect scenario.”