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Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Venezuela\u2019s interim president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, used a speech before the United Nations General Assembly to promise that her government would hold a democratic vote, vowing to oversee an \u201corderly legal transition\u201d after years of authoritarian rule by her party.\u201cI wish to say the following loud and clear at this General Assembly,\u201d she said on Wednesday evening. \u201cIn Venezuela, there will be elections.\u201dHer appearance before global leaders was the first in-person address of a Venezuelan head of state at the assembly since 2018. Her predecessor, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, had stayed away from the New York event for fear of arrest. Mr. Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, earlier this year, making Ms. Rodr\u00edguez the acting president.Ms. Rodr\u00edguez has since handed enormous power over to Washington, which now controls Venezuela\u2019s finances and significant parts of its resources.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn her address, Ms. Rodr\u00edguez praised a recent oil deal with the United States and called for a resetting of international relations, including a dialogue with neighboring Guyana, a nation with which it has a territorial dispute.But Ms. Rodr\u00edguez used a large part of her time to speak to Venezuelans.\u201cThe world has taught us that some of the most solid democratic transitions of the modern world were not born from fracture or breakdowns but from a transformation spearheaded with iron resolve by institutions themselves,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is our inspiration.\u201dThe promise of an election and shift to democracy is likely to be met with skepticism from many Venezuelans. Ms. Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s party, in power since 1999, spent years shaping and then rigging the vote in its favor, disqualifying popular opposition candidates and doling out favors to government supporters. In 2024, it stole an election won by the movement of popular opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, according to independent observers and the United States government.As acting president, Ms. Rodr\u00edguez faces enormous pressure to show Venezuelans that she will be a changemaker. Poverty and repression continue, and Ms. Rodr\u00edguez knows that if she doesn\u2019t address basic needs, and a desire to speak freely, she and her party risk losing power. Her government has initiated a dialogue with a wing of the opposition that does not include Ms. Machado. That conversation is focused in part on rebuilding electoral institutions. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMs. Rodr\u00edguez spoke at the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan as her onetime ally, Mr. Maduro, sits in a jail in Brooklyn, awaiting trial on federal charges of narcoterrorism.A day before the speech, Ms. Rodr\u00edguez met with President Trump, posing with the U.S. leader as he flashed a thumbs up. She called the meeting \u201chistoric\u201d in a social media post and said that the two had discussed \u201cstrengthening the bilateral relationship\u201d and advancing cooperation on energy, mining and security.During the meeting, Mr. Trump called for a new election to take place in Venezuela, according to a U.S. official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the meeting, which the person described as positive and brief.Ms. Rodr\u00edguez responded to Mr. Trump by agreeing to a vote, according to the official.Just days before Ms. Rodr\u00edguez arrived in New York, a U.N. mission charged with investigating human rights abuses in Venezuela published a report that said that \u201cstate institutions responsible for repression, gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity remain fundamentally intact\u201d under Ms. Rodr\u00edguez.While Ms. Rodr\u00edguez is being greeted in New York, Ms. Machado has said that she continues to be blocked from entering her country. The opposition leader left Venezuela last year to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTApparently trying to highlight the contrast between her freedom of movement and that of Ms. Rodr\u00edguez, Ms. Machado\u2019s allies said she made three failed attempts to enter Venezuela on Tuesday.\u201cDuring the last 24 hours, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado has been denied entry into Venezuela three times,\u201d said David Smolansky, a representative. \u201cShe has attempted to enter the country by air and sea but has been turned away each time.\u201dMr. Smolansky did not specify who had blocked Ms. Machado\u2019s entry.In her speech at the U.N., Ms. Rodr\u00edguez did not set a timeline for a new vote. Instead she said: \u201cThe Venezuelan people, with its age-old wisdom, will determine when the correct time for these elections is.\u201dZolan Kanno-Youngs contributed reporting from Washington.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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