(FILES) Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez meets with US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (out of frame) at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on February 11, 2026. The United States lifted sanctions on Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez on April 1, 2026, who took power after Washington ousted her predecessor Nicolas Maduro in a military operation. Rodriguez's name was deleted from the US "Specially Designated Nationals List" according to a post on the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control website. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images)