Trump Believes Venezuela’s Stability Depends on Chavismo. He’s Wrong
On the same day Delcy Rodríguez was in New York meeting Donald Trump and representing Venezuela at the United Nations, María Corina Machado was trying, unsuccessfully, to get closer to her own country.
The postwar parallel
The Trump administration has repeatedly defended its approach as a matter of sequencing. Venezuela needs stability first, then economic recovery and reconciliation, and “ultimately democratic transition.”
There is a meaningful difference between saying that the US will not prohibit her return and telling American partners that facilitating it is not US policy.
That raises a question that goes beyond Machado.