Trump’s official traveling to Venezuela to negotiate deporting members of the gang members of de Aragua
President Donald Trump The special mission envoy, Richard Grenell, traveled to Venezuel to provide a personal message to the socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on the acceptance of violent criminals deported from the United States.
At a call with reporters on Friday, Mauricio Claver-Carone, an American special envoy in Latin America, said Grenell would tell Madura to bring all Venezuelan criminals and gang members Too de Aragua who were “embroidered in the United States and do it unambiguously and without a condition. ”
Grenell will also demand that Veneuzeula immediately releases the US hostages that take place in that country, Claver-Carone said.
Ric Grenell, former acting director of the National Intelligence Service, speaks on the 3rd Day of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 17, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
The journey “focuses on two very specific questions. We expect that Venezuelan criminals and gangs will be returned, as they are, in every country in the world, without conditions and two, that US hostages should be released immediately, unambiguously,” he explained.
“This is not quid pro quo. It’s not negotiating in exchange for anything. I was clearly explained by President Trump.”
Caroline Leavitt White House secretary confirmed on Friday that Grenell had arrived in Venezuela at the behest of the President.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed re -election. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Despite the widespread belief of Venezuelanians and a large part of the international community that Maduro lost in 2024. Edmundo González UrrutiaHe swore to his third six -year term earlier this month.
Now they do not recognize Madura as the legitimate head of the State of Venezuela.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado He urged Venezuelan nationals to protest against the Madur regime and demand that González be appointed as the lawful President of Venezuela.
However, a picture from the video on social networks shows suspicious members of a minor, a moment de Aragua based on the Roosevelt Hotel, who allegedly attacked a nearby Times Square in a series of robbery. (Obtained from New York Post)
As many as 10 Americans are currently detained in Venezuela, although they have not declared them a department unjustly detained. The three US nationals who allegedly participated in the conspiracy to destabilize the country, said the Venecuelan Minister of the Interior Diosdado Cabello.
State department declined any involvement of the US -As conspiracy to overthrow Madur.
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It remains unclear how many Americans are currently holding in Venezuela after a significant replacement of prisoners in 2023 when Washington and Caracas negotiating to let go of dozens of prisonersIncluding 10 Americans, in exchange for Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close ally of Madur.
Saab was arrested during the first Trump administration on charges related to the bribery scheme in the amount of $ 350 million.
