President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Venezuela’s interim authorities will transfer between 30 and 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the United States.
The move comes just days after Trump said the U.S. would take control of Venezuela and its oil following the capture of former dictator Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.
Trump described the oil as “high quality” and said it would be delivered immediately to U.S. ports on storage ships.
“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115850817778602689">Trump posted</a>. “I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately.”
The Venezuelan shipment is enough to supply the United States for roughly one and a half to two and a half days, based on America’s <a href="https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/data-and-statistics.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com">daily consumption</a> of about 20 million barrels.
Venezuela currently produces only 900,000 to 1.1 million barrels per day, according to <a href="https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/economy/petroleum/Venezuela-records-a-sustained-increase-in-oil-production/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Venezuelan media</a>, marking a sharp drop from the roughly 3 million barrels a day <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/06/25/Venezuela-Cardon-refinery-blackout/8741750861108/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">it produced </a>before socialist Hugo Chávez took power in the late 1990s.
Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was sworn in on Monday, initially took a harsh approach to Trump capturing her predecessor, but has since become more conciliatory.
On Sunday, Rodriguez <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DTHIbhkjPSf/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">called for</a> “moving towards balanced and respectful international relations between the United States and Venezuela.”
&#8220;We invite the U.S. government to collaborate with us on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community coexistence,” she added. “President Donald Trump, our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war.”
<div id="attachment_1022973" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1022973" class="size-large wp-image-1022973" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2233810048-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2233810048-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2233810048-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2233810048-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2233810048.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Venezuela&#8217;s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on September 8, 2025. (Photo by FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
Rodríguez, 56, has been such a loyal and unflinching defender of Maduro’s socialist government that the former dictator once <a href="https://archive.is/o/7vljo/https://www.reuters.com/article/world/venezuelas-tiger-foreign-minister-rodriguez-quits-idUSKBN19D037/">called her</a> a “tiger.”
She is the daughter of left‑wing guerrilla leader Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, who helped found the Liga Socialista party in the 1970s. An attorney by training, Rodríguez has held several of the most powerful posts in Venezuela’s government, including Minister of Petroleum, President of the Constituent Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information, in addition to serving as vice president.
In 2018, she was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the European Union for her role in Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle and for undermining democracy. She responded by blasting the measures as the product of “racist” and “warmongering” policies of the “old imperial world,” the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-b9dacdedc04c462b8966e756bbb7ff66">reported at the time</a>.
Rodriguez was named vice president in 2018 by Maduro, who <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/who-is-delcy-rodriguez-vice-president-who-could-replace-venezuelas-maduro-2026-01-03/">described</a> her as “a young woman, brave, seasoned, daughter of a martyr, revolutionary and tested in a thousand battles.”
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/nobel-peace-prize-recipient-machado-pledges-return-venezuela-sees-alarming-internal-crackdown">told</a> Fox News that Rodríguez is as dangerous as Maduro.
“Delcy Rodriguez, as you know, is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narco trafficking,” Machado said. “She’s the main ally and liaison with Russia, China, Iran, certainly not an individual that could be trusted by international investors. And she’s really rejected, repudiated by the Venezuelan people.”
Despite the gesture from leaders, plain-clothes gunmen tied to the pro-Maduro “Colectivos” paramilitary group were deployed to Venezuela&#8217;s streets on Tuesday where they stopped vehicles to search phones and belongings looking for supporters of the United States capturing Maduro.
Police were also reportedly instructed to “search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States.”

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