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Secretary Rubio Meets with Venezuelan National Assembly President Dinorah Figuera, Oct. 9, 2026

October 9, 2026 · U.S. Department of State · 0:05:41

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What happened

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Dinorah Figuera — president of the National Assembly elected in 2015, the legislature the United States has treated as Venezuela’s democratic institution — at the Department of State on October 9, 2026, in a meeting carried by the department’s channel, with remarks by both before their talks.

Why it matters

The meeting is the administration’s Venezuela posture in a single image: the Secretary of State receiving the 2015 Assembly’s president at the State Department — engagement with the democratic opposition’s institutional remnant, by the administration’s most prominent Venezuela hawk, at the department he leads.

Sources: U.S. Department of State, “Secretary Rubio meets with 2015 Venezuelan National Assembly President Dinorah Figuera” (official upload, embedded above; the Department of State, October 9, 2026). Full transcript at state.gov.