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The American president, Donald Trumpspoke by phone with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Madurolast week, to agree on a possible meeting between the two in the United States, as reported this Friday by the newspaper The New York Times citing anonymous sources close to the matter.
The call, which included the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, It did not result in concrete plans for the meeting, added the report from the New York newspaper, which did not share more details about what was discussed between the two leaders.
The talk took place “days before” last Monday, November 24, when the US State Department designated a group it calls the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist group and which is linked to the ruler of Venezuela, whose Government has responded that “it is an invention” by Washington, the article adds.
Neither the Government of the United States nor that of Venezuela have made public statements about the alleged call between both leaders, although they have not denied that it occurred.
The news of the conversation spread hours after Trump’s announcement that the Armed Forces “will begin very soon” to “detain” the “drug traffickers of Venezuela” by land after operations at sea, where USA has bombed more than 20 boats and killed more than 80 people under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
“We will start stopping them by land. Also, by land it is easier, but that is going to start very soon. We warned them to stop sending poison to our country,” Trump declared in a Thanksgiving call with the military.
Despite this warning, Trump indicated on Tuesday that “he could talk to save many lives” with Maduro, a conversation that would be “welcome” in Venezuela, according to Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab.
The announcement of the discussions with Maduro comes after reports in the US press in October about alleged negotiations that the Government of Venezuela had sought with the Trump Administration.
He Miami Herald reported last October that the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, proposed to the United States to head a transitional government without Maduro, while The New York Times He noted that Caracas offered Washington to open its oil and gold to US companies and redirect its fuel exports from China to North America.
The reports occur in the midst of growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, which since November 16 deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest aircraft carrier, to the Caribbean and on Monday carried out attack demonstrations with its B-52H bomber planes.