Outside the Box
Infrastructure and economic rebuilding hinges on the U.S. lifting sanctions
Last Updated: Jan. 8, 2026 at 11:29 a.m. ET
First Published: Jan. 8, 2026 at 8:10 a.m. ET
The world is still trying to decipher what just happened in Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro, leader of the ruling Socialist United Party, is now in a New York prison.
His party, however, still governs, with former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez now Venezuela’s new president. She will try to contain the Chavista militants in her own government who have run this once rich country into the ground.
