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Hours after she was warned of facing a worse fate than ousted President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez softened her defiance of the United States’ and its President Donald Trump, calling for dialogue between the two.

Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were this morning escorted by helicopter from Brooklyn to the federal courthouse in Manhattan, where they are expected to be arraigned on a four-count criminal indictment, after being extracted by US forces from Caracas on Saturday.

Trump yesterday stated that Rodriguez’s resistance to the US intervention in the South American country would not stand, telling the Atlantic Magazine, “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”