Donald Trump's love-in with Delcy Rodríguez

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  The Economist.

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  Donald Trump grinned and gave a thumbs up as he posed for a photograph beside Delcy Rodriguez,

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  a leading member of the torturing, election-stealing regime which all but destroyed Venezuela.

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  Mr. Trump met Ms. Rodriguez, who is Venezuela's unelected interim president, at the UN General Assembly on September

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  22. For Mr. Trump, the encounter in New York was a chance to highlight a foreign policy success.

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  For Ms. Rodriguez, it was a golden opportunity to charm Mr. Trump in the hope that he ignores

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  opposition demands for elections and continues to favour habitable authoritarianism.

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  Her strategy is evidently working.

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  In January, U.S. Special Forces dragged Nicolas Maduro, the former dictator,

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  out of his compound in Caracas and dumped him in a jail in New York.

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  The next day, Mr. Trump threatened Ms. Rodriguez, then Mr. Maduro's vice president,

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  with a fate worse than Maduro, unless she complied.

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  That she is now chummerly glad handing Mr. Trump seven miles from where Mr. Maduro

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  languishes behind bars underlines her survival instincts, her ideological flexibility,

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  and the fact that she has done almost everything Mr. Trump wants.

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