The Latest Breaking News from Jorge Rodríguez

The paper mistook enforcement collapse for market reform, and now their "cosmopolitan technocrat" is Venezuela's dictator.

A retired Venezuelan general serving a prison sentence in the United States says interim leader Delcy Rodríguez and her brother, Jorge Rodríguez, consolidated power inside Venezuela years before the capture of Nicolás Maduro, acting as what he called "the true architects of the Venezuelan dictatorial regime."

"They gave us 15 minutes to respond, or they would kill us," Venezuela’s then vice-president Delcy Rodríguez told her colleagues seven days after a targeted US military operation captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, who had long been in Washington’s sights.

Venezuela’s legislature is debating a major overhaul of its oil sector, the first since Hugo Chávez's era