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Tense days in Venezuela. Conversation between Nicolás Maduro and Donald Trump does not seem to have borne fruit. Now, a “colonialist” ultimatum is increasing the pressure.
Donald Trump asked on Saturday night to consider “the airspace above and around Venezuela as completely closed.” The publication of Threads appeared after a telephone conversation between the leaders of Venezuela and the USA, according to the
According to the same newspaper, the Last week, the North American president issued an ultimatum to Nicolás Maduro, which considers an illegitimate leader due to alleged electoral fraud, drug trafficking and human rights abuses.
Donald Trump will have presented his geopolitical opponent with “the easy way or the hard way”, having offered him a safe passage to a friendly capital. If it did not do so, it would face direct action from the US.
The challenge is simple: theu Maduro leaves power, or Trump will use force to make him abdicate.
In a climate of tension and expectations of a possible North American invasion, the Venezuelan president did not give in: he called for an ultimatumand colonialist threat against the country’s sovereignty, and argued that it violates human rights: it is an “illegal and unjustified aggression”, says Maduro.
