Interim President Delcy Rodriguez’s appearance at the U.N. forces foreign leaders to interact with an authoritarian loyalist backed by Washington.

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, used a speech before the United Nations General Assembly to promise that her government would hold a democratic vote, vowing to oversee an “orderly legal transition” after years of authoritarian rule by her party.

The pull-aside meeting during a reception Trump hosted during the UN General Assembly came during Rodriguez's first trip to the US since taking office.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado tried 3 times to enter her country "by air and sea but has been turned away each time," her team says.

She will be the first head of state from her country in eight years to make a speech to the body in person, and she is likely to sound radically different from her recent predecessors.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado tried three times in the past 24 hours to return home but was unable to complete the journey.

The head of the Inter-American Development Bank said Tuesday the lender is weighing a return to Venezuela after nearly a decade away, but did not say whether Caracas' unpaid debts would be forgiven. "As a development bank,

US President Donald Trump and Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez ‌discussed restructuring the South American nation's billions of dollars in sovereign debt, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday.

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is to pay an official visit to Venezuela after she held a “cordial working meeting” on Wednesday with acting Venezuelan President, Delcy Rodríguez that both parties say heralds “the beginning of a new era in bilateral relations”.