Following a gathering with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to debate, partially, the discharge of People being held within the nation, Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for particular missions introduced on X Friday night time that he was returning to the U.S. with six of them.
“They simply spoke to @realDonaldTrump and so they couldn’t cease thanking him,” Grenell mentioned in his submit with out figuring out the six males, 4 of whom had been wearing light-blue Venezuelan jail outfits.
It’s been reported that not less than 9 People have been held by Venezuela the place Maduro’s officers have accused most of them of being concerned in terrorism or appearing as “mercenaries.”
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On a name earlier on Friday with reporters, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. particular envoy on Latin America, mentioned that “American hostages have to be launched instantly, unequivocally.”
However he added that “this isn’t a quid professional quo. It’s not a negotiation in change for something. Trump himself has made that very clear.”
This picture launched by Venezuela’s presidential press workplace reveals Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, proper, shaking arms with Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s particular envoy, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Behind is Jorge Rodriguez, president of the Nationwide Meeting (Venezuela’s presidential press workplace, through AP)
The Venezuelan authorities mentioned in a press release that the assembly between Maduro and Grenell on the presidential palace “befell with mutual respect and numerous problems with curiosity to each international locations had been mentioned,” together with about migration, sanctions and detained People, as Reuters reported.
Lower than a month in the past, Maduro was sworn in for a 3rd six-year time period as Venezuela’s president. Nevertheless, the U.S. authorities doesn’t acknowledge him because the nation’s professional head of state and as an alternative believes that Edmundo González, the opposition coalition candidate, received the latest election by greater than a two-to-one margin.
On the Oval Workplace on Friday, Trump mentioned that he’s “a really large opponent of Venezuela and Maduro.”
“They’ve handled us not so good. However they’ve handled, extra importantly, the Venezuelan folks very badly.”
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Grenell’s hours-long Friday go to to Venezuela was additionally supposed to compel Maduro to simply accept the return of some 400 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, which the nation’s lawyer common, Tarek Saab, has mentioned was dismantled in 2023.
The deportations have to happen “with out situations” and was “non-negotiable,” mentioned Claver-Carone.
