Por Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español

La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, llegó este miércoles a India para una visita de cinco días en la que buscará estrechar la cooperación bilateral en economía, comercio, cultura, tecnología, industria y salud, informó el Gobierno venezolano en un comunicado.

Rodríguez aterrizó en el Aeropuerto Palam de Nueva Delhi, donde la recibió el secretario adjunto y jefe de División para América del Sur del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de India, Aman Puri, dijo el Gobierno.

A la presidenta encargada la acompañan los embajadoras de ambos países y un grupo de altos funcionarios de Venezuela, entre quienes están el canciller Yván Gil; la ministra de Transporte, Jacqueline Faría, y la ministra para Ciencia y Tecnología, Gabriela Jiménez.

En su canal de Telegram, Rodríguez dijo que busca llevar a India un mensaje “de paz, amistad y cooperación”.

“En este país valeroso, espiritual y gran potencia económica, cumpliremos una fructífera agenda de trabajo orientada a fortalecer áreas de cooperación en beneficio de nuestro pueblo; avanzando en el camino de la complementariedad y el desarrollo compartido entre nuestras naciones”, señaló.

La visita de la presidenta encargada concluirá el 7 de junio, según el comunicado oficial.

Rodríguez realiza esta gira tras haber cumplido este mes cinco meses al frente del Gobierno de Venezuela, luego de que el presidente Nicolás Maduro fuera capturado en un operativo militar de Estados Unidos en Caracas y otras ciudades venezolanas. Estados Unidos acusa a Maduro de delitos de narcoterrorismo, narcotráfico y armas, cargos que él rechaza.

Desde la captura de Maduro, quien permanece detenido en Nueva York, Rodríguez ha condenado la operación estadounidense, pero al mismo tiempo se ha declarado dispuesta a establecer una nueva relación de cooperación y respeto con el Gobierno de Donald Trump.

En los cinco meses que tiene como presidenta encargada, Rodríguez también salió de Venezuela para viajar a La Haya, donde, ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ), defendió los argumentos de su país en la disputa legal que mantiene con Guyana por el territorio del Esequibo.

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By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, CNN

(CNN) — One of the key sticking points remaining in negotiations between the US and Iran centers on monetary compensation, as President Donald Trump is eager to strike a deal that will be viewed as superior to a prior agreement inked during the Obama administration, a US official familiar with the talks told CNN.

Iran has communicated to mediators that they want some form of financial compensation to be released as soon as the two sides agree on an initial memorandum of understanding, the official said, and not withheld for a future date.

But Trump administration officials are concerned that any unfreezing of funds at such an early stage could lessen the economic pain the US has inflicted on Iran throughout the course of the war — potentially eliminating, or at least weakening, a key leverage point Washington holds over Tehran.

That leverage will be fundamental to the US entering the second phase of negotiations — or “highly technical talks,” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio referred to them — on the specifics of Iran’s nuclear program.

Trump has made clear to his team that he wants any agreement to appear far stronger than the deal struck in 2015, and to avoid anything that could be construed as handing over “pallets of cash,” a phrase Trump has invoked to criticize then-President Barack Obama’s decision to give Iran financial compensation.

The president has told advisers he will not sign any deal where the US directly provides money to Iran, according to sources familiar with the matter, mindful of the comparisons to the Obama deal. The 2015 agreement unfroze $1.7 billion for Iran, a figure dwarfed by the $12 billion Iran has sought as part of the current negotiations.

Given Iran is unlikely to agree to any deal that has no compensation, officials acknowledge the issue is as much about public messaging as it is financial logistics. Advisers have worked to develop options that would involve other countries, including Qatar, releasing funds to Iran while the US avoids direct payments to the regime.

Another option would involve unfreezing Iranian assets but restricting them for humanitarian use only – dispersing the money to approved vendors for medicine, food and agricultural goods rather than giving them to the regime itself.

There have also been discussions around an investment fund for Iran that would provide billions of dollars for reconstruction once the two sides reach a final deal, sources have said. The US would not invest in the fund, and the bulk of the money would come from Gulf nations.

The White House has insisted Iran won’t see any financial relief until it relinquishes its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, invoking the refrain “no dust, no dollars” as shorthand for the red line.

“We have control of money that they claim is theirs,” Trump said at a Cabinet meeting last week. “We’ll keep control of that money. When they behave properly, and when they do what’s right, we

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By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN

(CNN) — The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time of record-breaking sea temperatures, an imminent super El Niño and fears a critical system of ocean currents could collapse, ushering in global chaos.

The Ocean Observatories Initiative, or OOI, was set up in 2016 and is made up of around 900 instruments in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans specially designed to withstand the immense pressure and corrosive saltiness of the ocean depths. Moored equipment and underwater gliders continuously collect real-time data allowing scientists to monitor the heath of the ocean, including shifts in ocean chemistry and changes to the powerful currents that shape global weather and climate.

The initiative was supposed to operate for three decades, but on May 21, the National Science Foundation, which funds the system, announced it would be “descoping” the network. Over the next 15 months, “in-water infrastructure” will be removed from arrays off the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and North Carolina and from the North Atlantic off southeast Greenland, the NSF said in a statement.

The decision “aligns with NSF’s wider strategy of a nimbler approach to prioritize support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies, as well as smart lifecycle management within its research infrastructure portfolio,” Mike England, head of media affairs at NSF, told CNN.

The announcement comes as the Trump administration undoes climate protections and attempts to dismantle and defund climate science, at the same time as it pushes to start mining the deep sea for critical minerals. Scientists have expressed deep concerns that dismantling this ocean monitoring system undermines ocean science at a critical time, reduces US scientific leadership and is abandoning taxpayer-funded equipment already paid for and installed.

“I’d call this penny wise, tons foolish,” said Rick Spinrad, an oceanographer who led the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the Biden administration. “OOI is proving its value for a range of economic and social benefits: from fisheries management to weather forecasting, to protection from coastal flooding … Where’s the analysis of return on investment that shows that eliminating OOI is in the taxpayers’ best interest?”

The global oceans are enduring a period of huge change — some of which remains largely unexplained. Ocean temperatures have been off the charts in some places, fueling more intense hurricanes, driving sea level rise and causing mass coral bleaching.

Sustained ocean monitoring is “how we detect emerging risks in real time,” said Helen Findlay, a b