Venezuela to Send Envoy for US Talks on Same Day Machado Visits

María Corina Machado, laureate of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, at the official opening of the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2025 in Oslo on Dec. 11.
Photographer: Naina Helén Jåma/Bloomberg

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By Ben Bartenstein and Eric Martin

January 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC

Updated on

January 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM UTC

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Venezuela’s acting president plans to send an envoy to Washington to meet with senior US officials on the same day that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be in town for her own talks in the wake of Nicolas Maduro’s ouster.