CIA Concluded Regime Loyalists Were Best Placed

“A recent classified U.S. intelligence assessment determined top members of Nicolás Maduro’s regime—including Vice President Delcy Rodríguez—would be best positioned to lead a temporary government in Caracas and maintain near-term stability if the autocrat lost power,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The analysis by the Central Intelligence Agency was briefed to President Trump and shared with a small circle of senior administration officials… It was a factor in Trump’s decision to back Maduro’s vice president instead of opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado.”