In an interview with NBC, the interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, claimed to have received an invitation to go to the United States. The trip would take place after "moving forward" with the "cooperation" between both countries, a relationship that US President Donald Trump described on his social networks as "extraordinary."

First modification: 02/13/2026 - 02:04

This Thursday, February 12, the leaders of Venezuela and the United States once again boasted of their good relations, consolidated in light of cooperation in oil matters under the dictates of Washington, after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in a US military raid on January 3.

In this peculiar and unbalanced relationship, the Donald Trump Administration found in Delcy Rodríguez, the president in charge of Venezuela, a "partner" willing to please the demands of the Republican president, who on his social networks classified the ties between Washington and Caracas as "extraordinary" and celebrated that he is getting along "very well" with the woman in charge of the South American country.

"Oil is beginning to flow, and large amounts of money, never seen in many years, will soon greatly benefit the Venezuelan people," Trump said in a Truth Social publication, in which he also disavowed Harry Sargeant III, an American tycoon who 'The Wall Street Journal' had pointed out as a mediator in the reactivation of Venezuela's oil sector.

That good harmony between Trump and Rodríguez could soon translate into a face-to-face meeting. This was revealed by the interim tenant of the Miraflores Palace, who in an interview with the NBC network said: "They have invited me to the United States."

"We are considering going there once we establish this cooperation and can move forward with everything," he told the American media.

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Although he did not refer to any specific date, a possible scenario appears on the horizon if a summit that Trump plans to hold with Latin American leaders in March takes place. According to the AP agency, which cites a White House source, the meeting would take place on March 7 in Florida, a few weeks before the US president's trip to China, a country whose growing influence in the region is a cause of concern for Washington.

Rodríguez escorts the US Secretary of Energy on a visit to Chevron facilities

These approaches occur in the midst of what Rodríguez described as a "successful" visit by the Secretary of Energy of the United States, Chris Wright, to Venezuela.

On the second day of his tour, Wright, received with state honors on Wednesday, toured with the Venezuelan president one of the plants operated by the American oil company Chevron in the Orinoco oil belt, an area that extends for 55,314 square kilometers to the east of the country and is home to the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world.

Specifically, Wright and Rodríguez visited facilities in Morichal, a district in the south of the Monagas state, corresponding to Petroindependencia, one of the joint companies in which Chevron is a minority shareholder of the state-owned PDVSA.

“The reunification of the talent of American companies and the passion of the Venezuelan people and the resources here: the sky is the limit,” the Trump Administration official told reporters at the scene.

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The tour marks the epilogue of Wright's historic visit, the first by a senior US official since the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

The day before, Rodríguez and Wright had signed an agreement at the Miraflores Palace that, according to the Venezuelan president, would allow the "establishment of a long-term productive partnership that allows for an energy agenda" that "is productive, effective, beneficial for both countries and complementary." The details or duration of the link were not specified.

Despite the good agreement, the United States does not plan to soften the yoke on the Venezuelan Government. In an interview with NBC, Wright specified that Washington will continue to control the sale of Venezuelan oil and the flow of its funds – more than $1 billion so far, according to the secretary – until "a representative government is formed" in Venezuela and stressed that the current Executive of Delcy Rodríguez will be able to use these resources "as long as progress continues here."

In addition, Wright considered it "quite likely" that Venezuela will hold "free and fair elections" before the end of Trump's second term.

Washington eases sanctions, Caracas awards new oil wells to Chevron and Repsol

Within the framework of the rapprochement between the United States and Venezuela, Washington has been announcing measures in recent weeks to soften the sanctions that weighed on the energy sector of the Caribbean country. The most recent, announced just before Wright's trip, aimed at allowing US companies to operate in the Venezuelan oil market, although under strict control and reporting conditions.

However, new announcements of this type are expected. "We have a lot of general licenses available and we will have more this week," Jarrod Agen, executive director of the White House National Energy Mastery Council, told a Foundation for Defense of Democracies event.

At the same time, the economic media Bloomberg reported that Venezuela plans to grant new land for oil production to the American firm Chevron and the Spanish company Repsol.

Citing sources familiar with the matter, the portal noted that authorities in Caracas "are preparing to award exploration and production blocks this week."

On the other hand, according to Reuters, the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is "progressing" in dialogue with many of its partners in joint ventures – among them American and European firms currently operating in the country – to offer them to expand their participation in oil fields, within the projects they already have assigned.

With Reuters, AP and EFE

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