Since a Jan. 3 military operation in Venezuela resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the South American country has been run by interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who served as vice president under Maduro's regime and is now cooperating with the United States amid concerns of facing the same fate as Maduro.
For María Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader, Rodríguez's cooperation with the United States is driven more by pressure than by choice. Speaking to reporters during her recent visit to Washington, Machado added that the interim president's main task is to dismantle what she described as a criminal power structure that has tormented Venezuela for more than two decades.
