José Raúl Mulino received a team of 51 Venezuelan specialists sent by Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez following an Oct. 9 earthquake.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino received a Venezuelan humanitarian delegation of 51 specialists on Wednesday, sent by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez to provide technical assistance following the earthquake that struck Panama on Oct. 9.

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The delegation, led by Venezuelan Public Works Minister Juan José Ramírez and Francisco Garcés, head of the Commission for Infrastructure Habitability Assessment, is tasked with helping evaluate infrastructure affected by the earthquake, Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication and Information said.

Mulino thanked the Venezuelan government for sending the team, highlighting its role in assessing critical infrastructure in the aftermath of the seismic event.

Text Reads: IMPORTANT: 🇵🇦 The President of the Republic of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, received the Venezuelan humanitarian delegation of specialists, sent by President Delcy Rodríguez.

“I thank the government of Venezuela for sending 51 experts in infrastructure evaluation. It will be of great help,” Mulino wrote on social media.

Before the meeting with Mulino, the Venezuelan delegation held talks with senior Panamanian officials at the Government Palace to coordinate technical cooperation. Panama was represented by José Ramón Icaza, minister for Canal Affairs and secretary of Presidential Goals; Deputy Presidential Minister Virna Luque; Deputy Public Works Minister Iván de Icaza; and Deputy Education Infrastructure Minister Delia Marcela Herrera.

Text Reads: I thank the government of Venezuela for sending 51 experts in infrastructure evaluation. It will be of great help.

According to Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication and Information, the mission was dispatched under instructions from Delcy Rodríguez to extend support and solidarity to the Panamanian people through technical assistance and expertise in responding to seismic emergencies.

The delegation’s arrival marks a bilateral cooperation effort focused on assessing infrastructure safety after the Oct. 9 earthquake.

The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions against Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and brother of the South American country’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, the Treasury Department reported.

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Washington has stepped on the accelerator to renew Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal. It is its first major democratizing initiative in the country and the main task of the negotiation table between the 2015 National Assembly and the government of Delcy Rodríguez, which meets again this Wednesday. The goal is to have a new court by December, but beyond the outline the United States published last week, nothing is as yet known about the timetables, the profiles sought, the procedures to challenge appointments and how civil society will take part in a process crucial to a country that is supposedly moving toward a democratic transition.

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She discussed agricultural development, food security and strengthening international ties during visit to Italy

On Tuesday, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez met with Qu Dongyu, director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy.

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During the meeting, Rodriguez and Dongyu discussed joint strategies to promote agricultural development, food security and the transformation of national agrifood systems.

The bilateral dialogue reaffirms the Venezuelan commitment to multilateral organizations to promote sustainable programs that benefit food sovereignty.

The meeting follows the participation of the South American nation’s acting president on Monday in the 2026 World Food Forum (WFF), organized by the FAO in the Italian capital.

After meeting with the FAO director, Rodriguez visited the headquarters of the International Italo-Latin American Organization (IILA) in Rome, where she spoke with members of the organization, which is marking its anniversary.

IILA Director Giorgio Silli welcomed the Venezuelan leader, who reaffirmed her country’s willingness to strengthen ties with the international community.

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The government of acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez has handed Álvaro Pulido — Álex Saab’s Colombian-born associate who had been held in Caracas since 2023 — over to the United States. The transfer was announced Sunday on X by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, while the Venezuelan government has remained silent on the case.

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Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and Angolan President João Lourenço met Monday in Rome to strengthen strategic relations around food security and sustainable trade on the sidelines of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s World Food Forum.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the World Food Forum of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which is being held in Rome this week. It followed Rodríguez’s speech at the forum’s plenary session, in which she reaffirmed what she called the principles of Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy and the duty to promote social well-being.

During the encounter, both leaders discussed strategies aimed at improving sustainable trade and strengthening food security, but no specific agreements were announced.

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The working teams of both delegations focused on food sovereignty and shared agricultural growth, with the aim of boosting trade flows and the production capacity of both countries. Venezuela and Angola, the reports said, reaffirmed their willingness to strengthen mutual assistance in order to meet global demands on sustainability and food supply.

The Rome encounter followed a September 25 review of the bilateral agenda by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia and his Angolan counterpart Tété António. The two officials identified openings for closer cooperation in trade, investment, mining and oil exploration.

They also agreed on the need to deepen the exchange of knowledge and experience across productive sectors. The goal, both governments said, is to drive sustainable economic growth and improve the welfare of their people.

The talks come as the World Food Forum, the FAO’s flagship event, brings together government delegations, farming communities, scientists and investors in Rome for a week of sessions on transforming global agrifood systems.

The meeting is the latest in a series of contacts between the two governments. On September 25, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia and his Angolan counterpart, Tété António, reviewed progress on the bilateral agenda. They identified opportunities to deepen cooperation in trade, investment, mining and oil exploration. Both officials agreed on the need to reinforce the exchange of knowledge and experience across various productive sectors in order to promote sustainable economic growth.

Text reads: “From the World Food Forum, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez supports a bilateral meeting with her counterpart from Angola, Joao Manuel González Lourenço. After her intervention at the international event, the Venezuelan Acting President evaluates with the African President new strategic mechanisms to strengthen agri-food production, sustainable trade and food sovereignty of both nations. The meeting aims to consolidate South-South cooperation and peace diplomacy.”

Ties Dating to 1986

Diplomatic relations between Caracas and Luanda date to December 6, 1986. The partnership rests on diplomatic cooperation, shared membership in OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and a sustained effort to strengthen agro-food security.

The relationship has gathered momentum in recent weeks. Venezuela reinforced cooperation with Angola, Italy and Guatemala, part of a broader diplomatic push that spans energy, agriculture and trade.

Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication and Information said in a statement that relations between the two countries are being consolidated through a strategic alliance based on energy, oil and diplomatic cooperation under the South-South principle.

The World Food Forum 2026 (WFF), hosted by the FAO in the Italian capital, has become a platform where leaders of the Global South coordinate responses to food insecurity. Venezuela used the gathering to present its food production agenda and to lock in alliances with partners in Africa and beyond.

For Angola, the talks offer a channel to diversify its economy beyond oil and to draw on Venezuelan experience in agricultural programs. For Venezuela, the partnership adds another node in a network of South-South ties that Caracas has cultivated to blunt the impact of sanctions and economic pressure. The public statements emphasized political will and shared priorities, with technical teams expected to translate the commitments into concrete projects in the coming months.

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The meeting underscores a recurring theme in Venezuela’s foreign policy under Rodríguez’s government, that food sovereignty is a matter of national security and must be built through alliances among developing nations. As global supply chains strain and prices fluctuate, the partnership with Angola positions both countries to produce more of what they consume.

For now, the outcome is a reaffirmed agenda rather than a signed deal. The next test will be whether the cooperation announced in Rome translates into joint ventures, increased trade and higher agricultural output on the ground.

She will highlight her county’s policies to strengthen domestic food supplies amid more than 1,000 unilateral coercive measures.

On Monday, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez arrived at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, to participate in the 2026 World Food Forum (WFF).

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She was accompanied by a delegation of high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including Foreign Minister Felix Plascencia and Ambassador Plenipotentiary Maria Elena Uzzo.

After being received by FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu, Rodriguez formally joined the activities of the 2026 WFF, which will take place from Oct. 8-16.

The acting president’s agenda is primarily aimed at highlighting Venezuela’s progress, strategies and challenges in agricultural production, environmental sustainability and resilient agrifood systems.

More specifically, Rodriguez will present the resilience policies implemented to consolidate domestic supplies and overcome the impacts stemming from more than 1,000 unilateral coercive measures imposed against the Venezuelan nation.

Following the opening of the 2026 forum, heads of state and government from around the world will participate in an opening panel, where they will discuss their capabilities or limitations in ensuring food security.

The 2026 World Food Forum, whose theme is “Innovate Today. Nourish Tomorrow,” is a major global hybrid event focused on transforming agrifood systems, empowering young people and ensuring food security. The forum is organized around three main pillars:

1. Global Youth Action: Amplifying young leaders, innovators and youth networks to drive grassroots and policy-level transformation.

2. FAO Science and Innovation Forum: Highlighting scientific discoveries, digital tools, traditional knowledge and technology in food production and distribution.

3. FAO Hand-in-Hand Initiative Investment Forum: Connecting young visionaries, farmers and entrepreneurs with financial institutions, investors and development partners.

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Sources: Presidential Press – FAO

Juan Miguel Matheus acknowledges United States involvement in the process that Chavismo and part of the opposition began on January 12, and which this month opens its third round of meetings. Far from being bothered by it, Washington’s involvement seems necessary to him: in his view, it has made essential compromises feasible for the institutional transformation needed to restore democracy in Venezuela. Matheus is confident that in the upcoming sessions, which will run through December, work will begin on a new electoral system and on restoring political and constitutional rights.

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“There is only one president in this country and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros,” Venezuela’s current interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, said on the same day as the U.S. attack that ended with the detention of the former chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores. Rodríguez described the military intervention in Caracas as an “illegal and illegitimate kidnapping of the president and first lady.” However, Venezuela later did not take any formal steps to demand the couple’s release or to request their immunity so they would not be tried in the United States.

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Vente Venezuela, the party founded by María Corina Machado, is preparing again for the imminent return of its leader despite delays, skepticism, and uncertainty. Decisions within the organization are being made on the assumption of her return. Machado was unable to enter the country from Panama last week (the reasons are still unclear), but her definitive arrival in Venezuela, says Henry Alviarez, the party’s secretary of organization, “is a matter of days.”

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A military contingent blocked the bridge over Lake Maracaibo on Monday in the Venezuelan oil capital to prevent a workers’ protest from closing the road. In Guayana, in front of the state-run basic industries, workers erected a barricade to demand better wages. In Caracas, a group protested for the release of political prisoners after news emerged of a death in the women’s prison run by the National Institute for Women’s Guidance (INOF). Over the weekend people took to the streets to demand a date for elections and the return of opposition leader María Corina Machado. Almost every night during a sweltering September, in inland cities such as Maracay, Guanare, Barinas, Valencia, and Maracaibo, people have expressed on the streets their frustration over blackouts that are increasingly prolonged, lasting up to 10 or 12 hours a day.

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The same week Delcy Rodríguez was received in New York as Venezuela’s interim ruler and met with Donald Trump in Manhattan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office opposed releasing Cilia Flores, wife of deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, on bail from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where both have been held since the January U.S. military intervention in Caracas.

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Alejandro Betancourt’s tentacles in Spain are long. The Venezuelan businessman who amassed a fortune after his country’s power crisis at the end of the 2010s has seen his wealth rise again after the Trump administration touched him with the magic oil wand, entrusting him with crude exploitation in a deal with the government of Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez. The billionaire’s assets in Madrid alone are substantial, according to police documents that are part of an ongoing investigation into alleged money laundering. Authorities seized five luxury cars, a United Arab Emirates residency card and 17 firearms at his private estate in Toledo.

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