The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has with Venezuela. The Republican has asked his special envoy for the South American country, Richard Grenelll, to stop every approach with Chavismo, also contacts with President Nicolás Maduro, according to government sources cited on Monday by The New York Times.
The order comes in full. And it is possible to interpret it as the necessary preparation for a resurgence of Trump’s offensive against Venezuela. The president of the United States announced on Sunday that he was ready to take another step. “We will see what phase two consists of,” he told reporters. After a while, in an act of commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Navy indicated that the operation against the cartels, a possibility that had already advanced before.
On Friday, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced extrajudicial that supposedly transported drugs. The United States Army killed its four crew. Hegseth described them, without providing evidence, of “narcoterrorist.”
It is the fourth attack known in recent weeks, and Washington has not yet contributed evidence in any of them. At least 21 people have died in those operations, for which Trump understands that he does not need the authorization of the Congress when they consider them acts of a “war” declared by the same to drug trafficking from Venezuela and Maduro, which he considers leader of two criminal organizations: the Aragua train and the poster of Los Soles.
In August, the Department of Justice doubled the reward, up to 50 million dollars, offered by the US government for any clue that leads to the arrest of Venezuelan president, which last year was attributed an electoral triumph against the opponent Edmundo González if to provide reliable evidence of that victory, questioned by much of the international community.
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