Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro after his U.S. capture

Because of her connections with the ​private sector and deep knowledge of oil, the country's top revenue source, Rodriguez has long been considered the most pragmatic member of Maduro's inner circle. "That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interest of the Venezuelan people are met." Once one of the most prosperous nations in Latin America, Venezuela's economy tanked in the 2000s under President Hugo Chavez and nosedived further under Maduro, sending about one in five Venezuelans abroad in one of the world's biggest exoduses.