Nicolás Maduro wrote two weeks ago a letter to Donald Trump in which he encouraged him to resume the dialogue they had maintained through Richard Grenell, the special envoy of the White House with which Chavismo had reached agreements on deportations and liberations of imprisoned shortly after returning to power the president of the United States, at the beginning of the year. “President, I hope that together we can defeat the falsehoods that have tarnished our relationship, which must be historical and peaceful,” Maduro wrote in the letter, he reports Reuters
The Chavista leader wants to get Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, a declared enemy of the Venezuelan regime. Rubio assures that Maduro is a drug trafficker and that he must be deposed to be presented before the justice of his country – the Treasury Department offers a 50 million reward for information that leads to his detention.
“These and other issues will always be open to a direct and frank conversation with their special envoy (Richard Grenelll) to overcome media noise and false news,” reads Maduro’s writing, which was sent after the first attack made by the US fleet anchored in the Caribbean, in which 11 people died who, according to the US authorities, transported drugs.
Grenelll visited Caracas on January 31 and was seen with Jorge Rodríguez, Maduro’s political right. Both portrayed observing the sword of Bolivar sheltered in a glass urn. It was a surprising photograph that dislodged the Venezuelan opposition and that led many to believe that it was an unexpected script turn. Maduro wants to have Grenell again as an interlocutor: “To date, this channel has worked perfectly.”
Deportation flights between the two countries continue, despite all tensions that have acquired a war. According to NYT, military sources have assured him that all the War Arsenal stationed in international waters, in the border with Venezuelan territory, aims to exert maximum pressure against Maduro.
Trump has justified this deployment as a way to combat drug trafficking towards his country, but an effort of this type just in this place in the world is exaggerated and even useless. The majority of the drug that arrives in the United States does it from Mexico or Guayaquil, in Ecuador.
The American flotilla has flown through the airs four vessels. Of three of these acts there are images in which they see what they seem to be drones shooting high caliber weapons against the occupants of the boats, which are sprayed. The regime fears the worst, an imminent invasion. He has deployed troops throughout the country, teaches in social networks fighters and antimiles and this same weekend he trains thousands of people in the use of weapons. It does so in the most popular neighborhoods in Venezuela, where the highest percentage of the country is concentrated.
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