President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Venezuela’s interim authorities will transfer between 30 and 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the United States.

The move comes just days after Trump said the U.S. would take control of Venezuela and its oil following the capture of former dictator Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.

Trump described the oil as “high quality” and said it would be delivered immediately to U.S. ports on storage ships.

“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” Trump posted. “I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately.”

The Venezuelan shipment is enough to supply the United States for roughly one and a half to two and a half days, based on America’s daily consumption of about 20 million barrels.

Venezuela currently produces only 900,000 to 1.1 million barrels per day, according to Venezuelan media, marking a sharp drop from the roughly 3 million barrels a day it produced before socialist Hugo Chávez took power in the late 1990s.

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was sworn in on Monday, initially took a harsh approach to Trump capturing her predecessor, but has since become more conciliatory.

On Sunday, Rodriguez called for “moving towards balanced and respectful international relations between the United States and Venezuela.”

“We invite the U.S. government to collaborate with us on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community coexistence,” she added. “President Donald Trump, our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war.”

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on September 8, 2025. (Photo by FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Rodríguez, 56, has been such a loyal and unflinching defender of Maduro’s socialist government that the former dictator once called her a “tiger.”

She is the daughter of left‑wing guerrilla leader Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, who helped found the Liga Socialista party in the 1970s. An attorney by training, Rodríguez has held several of the most powerful posts in Venezuela’s government, including Minister of Petroleum, President of the Constituent Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information, in addition to serving as vice president.

In 2018, she was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the European Union for her role in Nicolás Maduro’s inner circle and for undermining democracy. She responded by blasting the measures as the product of “racist” and “warmongering” policies of the “old imperial world,” the Associated Press reported at the time.

Rodriguez was named vice president in 2018 by Maduro, who described her as “a young woman, brave, seasoned, daughter of a martyr, revolutionary and tested in a thousand battles.”

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, told Fox News that Rodríguez is as dangerous as Maduro.

“Delcy Rodriguez, as you know, is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narco trafficking,” Machado said. “She’s the main ally and liaison with Russia, China, Iran, certainly not an individual that could be trusted by international investors. And she’s really rejected, repudiated by the Venezuelan people.”

Despite the gesture from leaders, plain-clothes gunmen tied to the pro-Maduro “Colectivos” paramilitary group were deployed to Venezuela’s streets on Tuesday where they stopped vehicles to search phones and belongings looking for supporters of the United States capturing Maduro.

Police were also reportedly instructed to “search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States.”

Officials in Denmark and Greenland have requested to meet with Secretary of State Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to acquire Greenland.

Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and Denmark Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen said separately that they had requested a meeting with Rubio. The officials said that similar meetings had been requested last year, but never granted.

“The strong request for a meeting is related to the U.S.’s claims about our country,” Motzfeldt said, according to ABC News. “Unfortunately, our country’s request for a meeting for a long time has not been successful, although this has been repeatedly requested by our country.”

Rasmussen said that the meeting would clear up “certain misunderstandings” related to Washington’s desire to acquire Greenland, according to France 24.

Trump has renewed his case for U.S. control of Greenland after the United States military last week successfully arrested and extradited Venezuela strongman Nicolás Maduro from his compound in Caracas. U.S. forces took Maduro to New York where he is set to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.

The White House issued a statement on Tuesday that said the administration is leaving open the option of “utilizing the U.S. military” as part of its acquisition strategy.

“President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region,” the White House said. “The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the commander in chief’s disposal.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Monday that threats to involve the military are part of a bargaining strategy. Rubio said that Trump wants to purchase Greenland from Denmark, not invade it, according to The New York Times.

Denmark has repeatedly pushed back against U.S. claims to the territory. On Tuesday, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland joined Denmark in issuing a joint statement against U.S. acquisition of Greenland.

Trump has insisted that Greenland is necessary for U.S. national security, especially to secure Arctic shipping lanes. Danish control of Greenland also cuts against the Monroe Doctrine against European interference in the Western hemisphere.