The US president dismissed the letter sent by his Venezuelan pair and confirmed that he will use “all necessary means” to stop drug trafficking.
The president of the United States, Donald Trumpthe invitation to the dialogue that the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, rejected on Monday and accused him of leading a Drug Cartelin the middle of the American military deployment in the Caribbean.
At a press conference, the White House spokeswoman, Caroline Leavittsaid that “The position of the administration on Venezuela has not changed“And Maduro” repeated many lies in that letter, “dated September 6.
Trump, he added, “has clearly demonstrated that he is willing to use all the necessary means to stop the illegal traffic of drugs from the Venezuelan regime. ”
In his letter, the Venezuelan president had called “Preserve peace with dialogue and understanding throughout the hemisphere“And he described as”Absolutely false“Drug trafficking signs. Maduro argues that Venezuela is”drug production free”And that only 5% of the cocaine produced in Colombia crosses its territory.
The tension between Nicolás Maduro and Donald Trump
Trump’s rejection occurs in a context of maximum tension: the United States deployed Eight warshipsa dozen fighters in Puerto Rico and reported the destruction on the high seas of three boats loaded with drugs.
In addition, the White House does not recognize Maduro as president after the complaints of electoral fraud of 2024 and offers a 50 million reward for his capture as the assumption leader of the “Los Soles Cartel”
From the opposition, the former candidate Edmundo González Urrutia –Exilized in Spain – described the designation of the cartel as a terrorist organization as “a necessary measure“And the US operation defended as a key to”The dismantling of the criminal structure“That holds the regime.
In a video next to María Corina Machadoin hiding, both assured that “Very little is missing for Venezuelans to recover sovereignty and democracy”
However, another opposition wing, headed by Henrique Caprileshe was against an eventual foreign military intervention. Meanwhile, the International Mission Independent of Determination of Facts on Venezuela –Designed by the UN– presented a new report in which it denounced a Increased political repressionwith mass arrests and persecution of opponentsespecially after the questioned presidential possession of Maduro in January.
Source: Ambito
