Nicolás Maduro, who swore as president of Venezuela on January 10, after his questioned re -election last July, said Friday that reached some “first agreements” with USA at the meeting with the president’s special envoy Donald TrumpRichard Grenelll, held today in Caracas.
“We were talking, defending and exposing, I think it was positive (the meeting), there are issues where we have reached first agreements and, as they are fulfilledwill open new issues, hopefully for new agreementS, for the good of the two countries and our entire region, “Maduro said in an act on the occasion of the judicial year 2025, transmitted by the state channel VTV.
Although he did not offer any detail about these agreements, he said that on Saturday his boss negotiating, the president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, “He will make an appearance to explain the steps” Given by both delegations, in “a climate of respect and height.”
Shortly before these statements, Grenell, after his departure from the Caribbean country, shared a photograph on social network X with six US citizens who were detained in Venezuela and were released, one from The two objectives of its “very specific” missionas Washington previously clarified, in addition to getting Caracas to accept deportation flights of undocumented migrants.
For his part, Maduro said he will be “very pending” that, after this “frank, direct, open” meeting with Grenelll, which communicates Be faithful to what was discussed in the presidential palace of Mirafloresheadquarters of the Executive, where he said he proposed to build a “zero agenda” for a “new start of historical relations” between the two countries -without diplomatic ties since 2019 -, in which “What you have to rectify, rectify.”
“From free, sovereign and Bolivarian Venezuela, we tell President Donald Trump (Que) We have taken a first stepI hope it can be sustained, we want to sustain it, “said Maduro, who said he had no” pressures of any kind, national or international. “
Migration and economic sanctions
After the president of the president with Grenelll, the Chavista administration explained in a statement that one of the “various issues of interest for both countries” addressed was the situation of “American citizens in crimes in national territory“, as well as the migration and the” negative “impact of economic sanctions.
In that pronouncement, Caracas expressed his willingness to Maintain “open diplomatic channels” With the US, country to which Maduro “raised the construction” of a “zero agenda for a new beginning in bilateral relations”, broken since 2019.
In parallel, Trump, whose government reiterated this Friday that does not recognize Maduro as president, He said he will not allow the purchase of oil from Venezuela As he did his predecessor, Joe Biden, who relieved the sanctions scheme with the issuance of licenses to foreign companies, including the American Chevron, to operate in the Caribbean country, which has the largest reserves proven oil.
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