Cody Weddle

Yeah, so we know that back in October, these meetings started taking place.

They involved the UAE and Delcy Rodriguez, who is now the acting president there in Venezuela, and as well her brother, who is highly involved in the government.

And we know there were at least two offers made, one in April and one in September.

for some type of transition in the country that would not include Maduro.

One of them was to have Delcy Rodriguez as the acting president, which is what we have now.

Another one was to allow a former general who had defected from the government to return to the country and serve as the acting president.

Now, this is all reporting originally from the Miami Herald.

but certainly relevant now that Delcy Rodriguez is actually in power.

The United States clearly didn't accept that offer at the time, but quite clear that those channels remained open and that there was some type of deal to allow this sort of to all happen.

It's not clear who approached whom, but, I mean, there were some – there were conversations there.

And we know that Jorge Rodriguez, her brother, and she as well have been very involved in negotiations involving the U.S.

going back for years.

They have been sort of the central figures of contact for –

Richard Grenell for U.S.

negotiators.

Jorge Rodriguez was central in the Barbados Accords, which, ahead of last year's elections, supposedly would have allowed for free and fair elections in Venezuela, which, of course, the regime there in Caracas backed out on.

So it's not clear who approached whom, who initiated this contact, but we do know that it happened.

And it's quite clear just because these two figures within the government have the most amount of contacts with U.S.

negotiators, with officials in the UAE, it's quite clear that something there was worked out.

It's hard to tell.