Delcy Rodríguez is sworn in as Acting President of Venezuela. She says she is doing so as “Executive Vice President of Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros.” She states that she does so “with the pain of the Venezuelan people after an illegitimate military aggression in our homeland, due to the kidnapping of two heroes we have as hostages in the United States: President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. I come with pain, but I also come with honor, to swear in the name of all Venezuelans.”

Rodríguez isn’t cooperating with the US. Rubio made it seem like she is, but the government of Venezuela is consolidated around Maduro, and the millitary also supports him due to the legacy of the Bolivarian revolution.