Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez hails ‘historic meeting’ with Donald Trump in New York
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Interim president, who agreed a 65bn-barrel oil deal with the US, did not say whether she would visit her snatched predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, in jail
Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has celebrated a “historic” meeting with Donald Trump in New York, posing for a smiley photo with the US president less than nine months after he ordered the abduction of her boss, Nicolás Maduro.
The former foes met at a five-star hotel in Manhattan a few blocks from Trump Tower late on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly. The hotel is about 7 miles from the Brooklyn prison where Maduro has been held since he was snatched during a special forces raid on Caracas.
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