Delcy meets Trump ahead of PM Persad-Bissessar

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, who ar­rived in the Unit­ed States yes­ter­day to at­tend the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA), is sched­uled to meet US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to­day and Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to­mor­row.

On her first trip to the US since be­com­ing act­ing pres­i­dent, Ro­dríguez was wel­comed yes­ter­day by John Bar­rett, the US Chargé d'Af­faires for Venezuela, along with Venezue­lan min­is­ters Cal­ix­to Or­te­ga, Vice Pres­i­dent for Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, and Oliv­er Blan­co, First Vice Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs and In­ter­na­tion­al Trade.