US Intensifies Pressure on Venezuela: Delcy Rodriguez Faces Indictment Threat

• The US is preparing a draft criminal indictment against Venezuela's new leader, Delcy Rodriguez, for alleged corruption and money laundering.
• The charges, being assembled by the US Attorney's Office in Miami, focus on her alleged involvement in laundering funds from state oil company PDVSA between 2021 and 2025.
• This legal pressure is part of a US strategy to strengthen leverage with Caracas following the ouster of former leader Nicolas Maduro.
• US officials have also presented Rodriguez with a list of at least seven former high-level officials, including Alex Saab and Raul Gorrin, whom they want her to arrest or detain for potential extradition.
• Rodriguez, Maduro's former vice president, took power two months ago after US special forces captured Maduro.