Strictly speaking, Delcy cannot. The most she can do, personally, is limit damage by socially manipulating Trump into doing less militarism and sanctions. Everything else must actually be a collective effort and follows not from Delcy herself but from formations in Venezuela, its political class, its organizations, its economic conditions. Dengism was, similarly, not just Deng, but an entire group of people, with bases of power, looking to address substantial contradictions in China’s political economy, particularly the instability (by various metrics), and the attempt to build productive forces through controlled foreign capital investment was just part of a larger set of plans.

This might sound like a copout because of course this is always the case for every country and we really just want to know what political program we advocate for and how our analysis leads to it - and what role we play in effecting it. But it’s essential to ground ourselves in that context, because “sell the rope” for Venezuela is again not in the cards, because Venezuela is a small country, it’s full of much deeper capitalist conditions that are not being untrenched, and its political formations, while more advanced than anything in the imperial core, are not as solid or empowered as what China was working with. You need high levels of top level economic control, planst and implemented over decades, with discipline, to pull that off, and that’s for a big country. Venezuela will never hang the US.

But the US can destroy itself and Venezuela can fight to survive its death throes. The goal cannot be to defeat the US through its own efforts, but to build power and alliances that withstand the weapons the US possesses and uses.

But maybe you’re just asking about how Venezuela could get the US to give it things, under the auspices of exploitation (or similar), but actually subvert this into a win for Venezuela. I think the answer is basically no, aside from highly qualified things like modest foreign capital investment witg milquetoast regulation. Likely a good thing for Venezuela, but not really pulling one over on the imperialists. It would just look like self-exploitation to become focused on an export economy in yet another way, and the whole issue here is that Venezuela needs (1) to have the sovereignty to do some central planning, import substitution, etc and (2) survive any actual military campaign directed at it, something possible only if it gets nukes or forms a strong regional coalition. Both of these things will not come from directly working with the US. They’ll come from working with the rest of the global south, if anything, and require a greater degree of left takeover of the political sphere. Venezuela should honestly read from the DPRK’s notes, if anything. But it’s really not politically developed for that approach, at least not to my eyes. So, proximally, the thing to really focus on is political development of the population. If I lived in Venezuela I’d be in a local org and trying to grow it. That’s honestly the best thing any one person can do. And then they can use that org to push towards central planning, away from accepting bad deals with the US, towards regional partnerships.