Grenelll was received by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, who had already met him in one of the dialogue meetings in Mexico, in which there was no progress. He was then received by Maduro at the Miraflores Palace.
The main objective of the meeting was to ensure that Venezuela accepts the return of deported Venezuelans from the United States, and releases Americans retained in the Latin American country.
“You must receive Venezuelan criminals who have been sent to the United States,” he said at a press conference Mauricio Claver-Carone, Manager of the White House for Latin America. Who, in addition, stressed that this premise is “unnegotiable.”
Maduro offered Trump’s envoy A “zero agenda” for the restart of conversations; That is, put new agreements on the table.
The most urgent interest of the White House is to coordinate the Venezuelan deportation flights, The list includes the leaders of the criminal group Aragua train captured in the United States.
Maduro has already said that he is willing to receive them. “We do want them to come back. If they don’t want them there, we want them, with love, and we open our arms ”, He said this week.
For the Government of Venezuela, the priority is the lifting of the economic and individual sanctions imposed by the White House to a hundred officials, which offers millionaire rewards for the capture of Maduro and other leaders of the regime.
The US recommends Maduro to take advantage of “this opportunity”
Trump’s agenda does not include a negotiation, Claver-Carone clarified. And adds to the deportation of Venezuelans, the release of at least six Americans arrested by Caracas under positions of conspiracy. “American hostages in Venezuela have to be released and returned immediately”said.
If the government of President Maduro does not meet those demands, The new US president has already stressed that “there will be consequences.” Claver-Carone recommended Maduro to take advantage of “this opportunity.”
The United States and Venezuela broke relations in 2019, after Trump recognized Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela during his first term. During the administration of Joe Biden, Chavismo regained dialogue with the United States, after crossing the hardest siege of sanctions imposed by Trump in his first mandate.
Source: Ambito
