Trump to meet Venezuela’s acting president Rodriguez, US UN envoy says

A direct Trump-Rodriguez meeting would mark a notable shift in Washington's posture toward Caracas, since the acting president has been a sanctioned figure rather than a US interlocutor. For energy and commodity markets, the significance lies in what any thaw could eventually mean for Venezuelan crude flows and sanctions architecture, though the absence of a date or venue suggests nothing is settled. The parallel Gulf meeting hints at a broader regional agenda running alongside it. Whether these talks translate into concrete policy movement is the open question.