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Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez is set Thurs­day to de­liv­er her first state of the union speech, ad­dress­ing an anx­ious coun­try as she nav­i­gates com­pet­ing pres­sures from the Unit­ed States – which top­pled her pre­de­ces­sor less than two weeks ago – and a gov­ern­ment loy­al to for­mer Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

The speech comes one day af­ter Ro­dríguez said her gov­ern­ment would con­tin­ue re­leas­ing pris­on­ers de­tained un­der Maduro in what she de­scribed as “a new po­lit­i­cal mo­ment” since his ouster by the Unit­ed States ear­li­er this month.

In her ad­dress to the Na­tion­al As­sem­bly, which is con­trolled by the coun­try’s rul­ing par­ty, Ro­dríguez is ex­pect­ed to ex­plain her vi­sion for her gov­ern­ment, in­clud­ing po­ten­tial changes to the state-owned oil in­dus­try that U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has promised to rein­vig­o­rate since Maduro’s seizure.