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CIA chief visits Maduro successor as Machado vows to become Venezuela’s president
The Guardian
•January 16, 2026•By Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent👁️0
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John Ratcliffe meets Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas less than two weeks after his agents helped to oust her precedessorThe CIA chief whose agents reputedly played a key role in abducting Nicolás Maduro has flown to Venezuela to meet his successor as the sidelined opposition leader María Corina Machado vowed she would become the country’s first elected female president.Machado’s comments were broadcast on Friday, a day after she handed her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump in recognition of what she called a principled and decisive move against Maduro, who US special forces snatched on 3 January. Continue reading...
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