{"id":502002,"date":"2026-03-11T20:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-administration-notifies-us-justice-department-of-official-recognition-of-delcy-rodriguez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:51:22","slug":"trump-administration-notifies-us-justice-department-of-official-recognition-of-delcy-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-administration-notifies-us-justice-department-of-official-recognition-of-delcy-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration notifies US Justice Department of official recognition of Delcy Rodr\u00edguez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Washington.-<\/strong> The United States Department of State notified the New York court, which is handling the case against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, that it formally recognized the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, as the head of state of that country.<\/p>\n\n\nThe State Department’s point person for Latin America, Michael Kozak, sent a letter to prosecutor Jay Clayton asking him to inform the court that “the United States recognizes Delcy Rodr\u00edguez as the sole head of state, capable of acting on behalf of Venezuela.”\n\n\n

Last Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced that he had formally recognized the Rodriguez government, days after the United States and Venezuela restored diplomatic relations, broken since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\nThis recognition weakens Maduro’s position, captured by US forces on January 3 in Caracas, since in the trial he faces in New York for alleged drug trafficking he has presented his defense as president of Venezuela and has requested that it be financed with funds from the Venezuelan State.\n\n\n

We recommend reading:Delcy Rodr\u00edguez says she resumes relations with the US out of friendship and with intelligence<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

U.S. emphasizes that it never recognized Maduro<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nIn the letter, Kozak clarified that the United States does not recognize Maduro as head of state since January 23, 2019 and that “that lack of recognition continues to the present.”\n\n“Maduro is an accused narcoterrorist awaiting trial in a U.S. federal court for his crimes,” he emphasized.\n\nKozak pointed out that on March 5th, the United States announced “the normalization of relations with Venezuela under the interim president Delcy Rodr\u00edguez”.\n\nThe official added that Washington’s goal is to achieve “a gradual process that creates the conditions for a peaceful transition to a democratically elected government.”\n\n“To facilitate this transition, the United States recognizes Delcy Rodr\u00edguez as the sole head of state, capable of acting on behalf of Venezuela,” he emphasized.\n\n\n
You can also read:Petro and Delcy Rodr\u00edguez will meet for the first time on Friday, March 13, at the border<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nDuring Trump’s first term, the United States considered the 2018 presidential elections fraudulent and in 2019 recognized opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3, then president of the National Assembly, as the interim president of the country.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington.- The United States Department of State notified the New York court, which is handling the case against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, that it formally recognized the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, as the head of state of that country. The State Department’s point person for Latin America, Michael Kozak, sent a letter to prosecutor Jay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26AO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}