Dinorah Figuera, president of Venezuela's last freely elected National Assembly (2015) who had spent nearly eight years in exile in Spain, returned to Caracas on Thursday at the invitation of the US State Department to negotiate the creation of a credible electoral authority with the country's interim government, led by Delcy Rodríguez. On arrival, she held an initial meeting with parliament speaker Jorge Rodríguez, agreeing to establish a joint technical and political working group with concrete milestones and timelines — a step the US Embassy described as a "roadmap" for dialogue. The return is part of Washington's broader push for a democratic transition in Venezuela, where Rodríguez has governed on an interim basis since January following a US operation that led to the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro.