Venezuela’s acting president said Sunday she wanted the Trump administration to “collaborate with us” on “shared development” following the capture by US forces of her predecessor, Nicolas Maduro, early Saturday — while President Trump told reporters the new leader was “cooperating” with Washington.

Delcy Rodriguez had initially criticized the special forces raid on Caracas as an illegal effort to grab Venezuela’s natural resources, but took a more conciliatory tone in a statement on social media.

“We invite the US government to collaborate with us on an agenda of cooperation oriented towards shared development within the framework of international law to strengthen lasting community coexistence,” said Rodriguez, who also serves as oil minister. “President Donald Trump, our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war.”

Trump told reporters on board Air Force One Sunday night that his main priority was to “fix” what he dubbed a “broken country” rather than engineer regime change in South America — though he added that “if they don’t behave, we will do a second strike.”

The US president added that he had not yet spoken with Rodriguez, but “at the right time, I will.” Trump also declined to say whether he had made any promises to Rodriguez in exchange for her acquiescence, saying only that “she’s cooperating.”

“We have to do one thing in Venezuela: Bring it back,” Trump said. “It’s a dead country right now … We have to bring it back. And we’re going to have to have big investments by the oil companies to bring back the infrastructure. Companies are ready to go. They’re going to go in. They’re going to rebuild the infrastructure.”

The president later clarified: “We’re not going to invest anything. We’re going to just take care of the country. We’re going to cherish the country. We’re going to take care of, more importantly, of the people, including Venezuelans, that are living in our country, that were forced to leave their country. And they’re going to be taken very good care of.”

Rodriguez’s statement came on the eve of Maduro’s scheduled appearance Monday before a federal judge in New York. 

The 63-year-old and his wife, Cilia Flores, face charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, illegal weapons possession and conspiracy to the same.

Prosecutors say Maduro directed cocaine trafficking routes, used the military to protect shipments, sheltered violent trafficking groups — including Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang — and used presidential facilities to move drugs.

The charges were initially filed in 2020, but were updated on Saturday to include Flores, who is accused along with her her husband of ordering “kidnappings, beatings, and murders against those who owed them drug money or otherwise undermined their drug trafficking operation, including ordering the murder of a local drug boss in Caracas, Venezuela.”

Maduro has denied wrongdoing, and it could be several months before he stands trial.

Since Maduro’s capture, Trump has dismissed the idea of opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado taking over, telling The Post in a phone interview Sunday: “I don’t think she’s got the support of the people that she has to have.”

Machado was banned from taking part in the 2024 presidential election — which most observers believe to have been stolen by Maduro — but has said her ally Edmundo Gonzalez has a mandate to take the presidency.

With Trump and Congress returning to Washington following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was due to brief top lawmakers from both parties Monday evening about the Venezuela operation.

Once one of the most prosperous nations in Latin America, Venezuela’s economy has collapsed over the past 20 years, prompting about one in five Venezuelans to move abroad in one of the world’s biggest exoduses.

Maduro, a former bus driver, led the country for more than 12 years following the death in 2013 of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president since 1999.

With Post wires