Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro they kept a phone conversation last week to bring positions closer together and also bring closer a possible meeting between the two.
This is what he announced this Friday The New York Timesat a critical moment due to the noise of a possible US intervention in Venezuela in the middle of the war against drug trafficking.
For months now, in waters near Colombia and especially Venezuela. With this last country, hostilities have escalated since Washington deployed its largest aircraft carrier in the Caribbean Sea on November 16 and even more after the attack maneuvers carried out on Monday with B-52H bombers.
Not only the two presidents participated in the telephone contact; was also present US Secretary of State Marco Rubiowho did not want to give more details. It has been learned that the call was not closed successfully and both leaders continue without a specific date to hold their in-person meeting.
Without specifying the exact day of the conversation between Trump and Maduro, The New York Timesi It does claim that it took place “days before” Monday, when the State Department. Caracas, upon learning of Washington’s accusation, rejected all contact with the cartel and described the news as “invention.”
Before that, in October, information was already circulating about alleged contacts between Venezuela and the Trump Administration to propose a future in the South American country without Maduro or new and profitable trade agreementsaccording to various American media.
