Santiago Peña traveled to Venezuela ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, marking Paraguay’s first formal engagement with the Miraflores Palace since Delcy Rodríguez took power following the capture of Nicolás Maduro. The trip closes — at least for now — a twenty-month cycle of diplomatic rupture and reopens a bilateral file that combines political recognition, an oil debt dispute being litigated in Paris, and nearly a decade of swings depending on who is in power in each capital.