Rodríguez has been walking a tight-rope since being backed by the US to lead the country in the interim — balancing keeping Maduro loyalists on board at home while trying to ensure the White House is happy.
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Tricia Escobedo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
Trump’s innovation was to grasp that, because the conservative movement had trained its devotees to ignore mainstream media and rely completely on information supplied by its own loyalists, his ability to control his supporters’ perceptions effectively had no limit.
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