"Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez urged lawmakers to approve reforms to the oil industry to allow greater foreign investment during her first annual state of the nation address to the National Assembly. The proposal is aimed at opening up the country's state‑run oil sector to outside investors and boosting revenue for public services and development projects. Rodriguez said the reforms will allow "those investment flows to be incorporated into [...] fields where investment has never been made and fields where there is no infrastructure." Venezuela's acting president said it was a 'major achievement' in 2025 that the country had 'zero fuel imports,' noting that no gasoline was imported and all fuel supplied in Venezuela was produced by domestic workers. Rodriguez said that from now on "a new policy is being forged in Venezuela" and asked ambassadors, charges d'affaires and diplomatic representatives to convey to their capitals and to the world "the truth of Venezuela," after "an armed aggression coming from a nuclear power." The leader said there is "a stain" in relations with the United States after the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, but urged resolving differences through dialogue, noting that "we are not afraid to confront diplomatically." "It is not that the Acting President is afraid because she is threatened. No, no, no, Venezuela is threatened, all of Venezuela is threatened, and that is why I call for national unity so that, with sovereignty foremost, we wage the diplomatic battle," she said. She also said that Venezuela has the right to relations with China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, and "with all the peoples of the world," and mentioned that with the United States "we also have the right and to do so in a respectful manner." Rodriguez's speech comes less than two weeks after Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured by United States forces and transferred to a federal prison in New York, where they face drug trafficking charges."