Venezuela live updates: interim president offers to ‘collaborate’ with US after Trump warns of further strikes

<p>Delcy Rodríguez adopts conciliatory tone as she stands in for Nicolás Maduro after Venezuelan leader captured by American forces and brought to US</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/things-are-complicated-tense-calm-spreads-at-venezuelas-border-with-colombia-after-maduro-capture">Tense calm spreads at border with Colombia after Maduro capture</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/venezuela-european-leaders-divided-and-torn-in-response-to-us-ousting-of-maduro">Analysis: European leaders appear torn in face of new world order</a></p></li></ul><p>A UK minister would not be drawn into saying whether his government believes the US capture of Venezuela’s president was influenced by <strong>the country’s rich oil reserves</strong>.</p><p>Asked on Sky News why he thought Donald Trump had captured <strong>Nicolás Maduro</strong> and said America would “run” Venezuela, Home Office minister <strong>Mike Tapp</strong> said:</p><p><em><strong>This is for Donald Trump to answer</strong>, and I think he has said in his press conference, which I watched with interest around narco-terrorism and that threat.</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/05/venezuela-live-updates-trump-us-interim-president-collaborate">Continue reading...</a>