Elections pose next test for Venezuela

Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez held a rare address last week in which she vowed to hold elections. Venezuela’s next big test will be whether it can turn the Trump administration’s plan for elections into a genuine transition to democratic rule. And with the US midterms over soon, the issue will soon face renewed interest from Washington. Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez held a rare address last week in which she vowed to hold elections — an ambitious promise for a government still navigating political upheaval following the US’ arrest of President Nicolás Maduro in January. But no election date has been set, as opposition leader María Corina Machado emphasized in her own remarks shortly afterwards. Meanwhile, Rodríguez is already signaling an interest in working with Washington, despite some of her public rhetoric, tapping former opposition aide Oliver Blanco as foreign minister.