Maduro's presumed successor, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, is possibly in Russia: report

The presumed successor to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is presently successful Russia, a study said Saturday. 

Four sources acquainted with the movements of Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez confirmed her determination to Reuters, though the quality bureau cited Russia’s overseas ministry arsenic claiming the study was "fake." 

Earlier successful the day, Rodriguez demanded successful audio played connected Venezuelan authorities TV that the U.S. supply "proof of life" for Maduro and his woman aft President Donald Trump said the brace were captured successful a U.S. subject operation. 

"We request that President Donald Trump’s authorities supply contiguous impervious of beingness for President Maduro and the First Lady," Rodriguez said, according to Reuters. 

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Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is seen flanked by his woman Cilia Flores, right, and Delcy Rodriguez, left, successful Caracas, Venezuela May 24, 2018. (Marco Bello/Reuters)

Trump aboriginal shared to Truth Social a photograph of Maduro seen detained, blindfolded and clutching a h2o vessel portion wearing grey sweatpants and a sweatshirt aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Trump said helium would aboriginal beryllium brought to New York. 

Maduro antecedently served arsenic Venezuela’s vice president earlier helium took powerfulness successful 2013 pursuing the decease of then-leader Hugo Chávez. 

Jorge Rodriguez, who is Delcy’s member and is the caput of Venezuela’s nationalist assembly, remains successful Caracas, 3 sources told Reuters. 

When asked astir what the aboriginal of Venezuela holds with Maduro nary longer successful the country, Trump said successful an interrogation connected "Fox & Friends Weekend" that, "we're making that determination now."

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President Donald Trump shared a photograph of captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima aft strikes connected Venezuela, connected Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Truth Social/ @realDonaldTrump)

"We can't take a accidental of letting idiosyncratic other tally and conscionable instrumentality implicit wherever helium near off. So we're making that determination now," Trump told Fox News. "We'll beryllium progressive successful it precise much, and we privation to do liberty for the people. We privation to, you know, person a large relationship. I deliberation the radical of Venezuela are very, precise happy because they emotion the United States. You know, they were tally by fundamentally a dictatorship oregon worse." 

Trump aboriginal confirmed astatine a property league successful Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Fla., that the U.S. would tally Venezuela connected a impermanent basis.

The successors to Maduro are apt to beryllium the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize victor and absorption leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González, an adept said Saturday. 

Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez addresses the media successful Caracas, Venezuela, connected March 10, 2025.  (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)

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Jorge Jraissati, a Venezuelan who is the president of the Economic Inclusion Group, told Fox News Digital that "Machado and Gonzalez would presume a transitional authorities successful Venezuela. 

Fox News’ Rachel Wolf, Benjamin Weinthal and Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.