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

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

Four sources acquainted pinch nan movements of Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez confirmed her location to Reuters, though nan news agency cited Russia’s overseas ministry arsenic claiming nan study was "fake." 

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

"We request that President Donald Trump’s authorities supply contiguous impervious of life for President Maduro and nan 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 later shared to Truth Social a photograph of Maduro seen detained, blindfolded and clutching a h2o vessel while wearing grey sweatpants and a sweatshirt aboard nan U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Trump said he would later beryllium brought to New York. 

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

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

When asked astir what nan early of Venezuela holds pinch Maduro nary longer successful nan country, Trump said successful an question and reply 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 nan USS Iwo Jima aft strikes connected Venezuela, connected Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Truth Social/ @realDonaldTrump)

"We can't take a chance of letting personification other tally and conscionable return complete wherever he near off. So we're making that determination now," Trump told Fox News. "We'll beryllium progressive successful it very much, and we want to do liberty for nan people. We want to, you know, person a awesome relationship. I deliberation nan group of Venezuela are very, very happy because they emotion nan United States. You know, they were tally by fundamentally a dictatorship aliases worse." 

Trump later confirmed astatine a property convention successful Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Fla., that nan U.S. would tally Venezuela connected a impermanent basis.

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

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

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Jorge Jraissati, a Venezuelan who is nan president of nan 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.