Among the lingering questions around Donald Trump's much anticipated immigration policy and deportation strategy is how exactly the president-elect plans to deal with Venezuela. Close to 8 million people have migrated from the country, whose crisis only got worse after the July 28 presidential elections in which Nicolás Maduro claimed victory despite not showing supporting documentation, something that led the opposition and a large portion of the international community to dispute the scenario.
On the one hand, reports have identified American executives and bondholders who favor a pragmatic deal with Maduro, which would involve increased Venezuelan oil exports to the U.S. in exchange for reduced outward migration and willingness to take deportees. On the other hand, one of Trump's first Cabinet appointments for his second term was Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, a man who has been one of the most vocal critics of Maduro and even proposed increasing a bounty again the Venezuelan strongman in September.
