Delcy Rodríguez sworn in as Venezuela’s interim leader as loyalists remain in place

Delcy Rodríguez, previously Venezuela’s vice president, was sworn in on Monday as the country’s interim leader after President Trump deposed Nicolás Maduro, the Times reported. The report said Mr. Maduro’s inner circle has appeared to remain intact since the U.S. military operation that seized him, with loyalists presenting a united front and calling for resistance to what they describe as an illegal intervention.

Ms. Rodríguez has both offered to work on a “cooperative agenda” with the United States and condemned what she called its “illegitimate military aggression,” the article said. Tarek Saab, the attorney general, called for cooperation among public and military institutions in the face of what he called “state terrorism” by the United States.

The Times profiled several key figures still holding power: Ms. Rodríguez, 56, described as a cosmopolitan technocrat who built ties with economic elites and engineered a market-friendly overhaul; her brother Jorge Rodríguez, Mr. Maduro’s former chief political strategist who represented him in talks with the United States but, the paper said, lacks popular support according to polls; Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, named by rights groups as the face of the repression apparatus and, the report noted, named alongside Mr.

Maduro in a Justice Department indictment with a $25 million U.S. reward for information leading to his arrest; Defense Minister Gen.

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