Venezuela releases 6 U.S. detainees after Trump envoy’s meeting with Maduro
In recent months, six Americans have been detained in Venezuela Meet with Trump government officials on Friday Mission urges authoritarian leaders to regain immigrants deported in the United States.
Richard Grenell, President Trump and his special envoy, announced that six men were released on social media. Graine’s visit shocked many Venezuelars, and they hoped that Mr. Trump could carry out the “maximum pressure” movement of Maduro during his first term.
According to the White House, Grenell’s several -hour Venezuela travel focuses on Mr. Trump’s efforts to expel the Venezuela back to the current unacceptable motherland and release the detained Americans.
“We are the wheels that go home with these 6 American citizens,” Grenell (Grenell) is posted on X There is also a photo showing him and the man on the plane. “They just talked to @Realdonaldtrump. They couldn’t stop thanking him.”
The meeting of Venezuela’s capital took place in Maduro less than one month after the third or six years after work, although reliable evidence showed that he lost last year’s election last year. The U.S. government and several other Western countries do not recognize Maduro’s victory statement together, but pointed out the statistical table collected by the opposition alliance, showing that its candidate Edmundogonzález is more than one -to -one The profit won.
Venezuela National Television played a video of Grenell and Maduro at Miraflores Palace, and said that the meeting had been required by the US government.
On Friday, a administrative order was signed in the oval office. Mr. Trump was asked if Graine was filmed with Maduro. This is the government of the government that Trump has not yet officially recognized Essence
Trump replied: “No. We want to do something with Venezuela. I am an important opponent of Venezuela and Maduro.” “They do not treat us well, but more importantly, the Venezuela people are very bad. “
Mr. Trump added that Greennell “meets many different people, but we are for the Venezuela people.”
Some Republicans criticized this visit.
“This is a terrible timing of Elliott Abrams) said,” said, “he served as a special envoy of Venezuela and Iran in the first Trump administration. “The meeting with Maduro will be legalized by him, and it shows that Americans admit that he is the president. If the purpose is to convey the difficult information about immigration, the president can do this. Send someone to Gara Gas.
Disputes on election results have triggered national protests. During the demonstration and after that, more than 2,200 people were arrested.
Among the detained people, as many as 10 Americans were linked to Americans who were said to destroy the country’s stable land. Neither the White House nor the Maduro government immediately released the name of the six people released on Friday.
A non -profit organization advocates the release of the detention person’s organization that David Estrella is part of the plot of assassination of Maduro.
The Trump administration has adopted a series of actions to crack down on illegal immigrants with a good commitment and carry out the largest large -scale deportation efforts in American history.
These measures include the revocation of the Bye -based government ruling earlier this week, and the decision will protect about 600,000 people from the deportation of Venezuela, which may be evacuated by the country in about two months.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Friday that Mr. Trump had instructed Greennell to “identify one place and ensure that the Tren De Aragua criminal organization was repatriated to ) Members of the criminal organization “in Venezuela land”. She said that Mr. Trump also ordered Graner to “ensure that all the US detention of Venezuela returns home.”
Since the economic dissolution in 2013, more than 7.7 million Venezuers have left the motherland, and Maduro took office for the first time. Most people settled in Latin America and the Caribbean, but after the popularity, immigrants increasingly set their sights on the United States
Venezuela’s desire for better living conditions and the rejection of Maduro are expected to continue to promote immigration.
Prior to the presidential election last year, a national polls conducted by Venezuela Research Company Delphos showed whether about a quarter of the population thought would be elected as Maduro again.
Grenell contacted Maduro before Mr. Trump on behalf of Mr. Trump to ensure that the American who was imprisoned was released empty -handed.
In 2020, he and Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial security company Blackwater, went to Mexico City to a secret meeting with the top Maduro assistant. The Associated Press previously reported that the negotiations of the later class were concentrated in Maduro’s proposal to exchange eight Americans, and then the businessman Alex Saab (Alex Saab), a businessman who imprisoned in Venezuela, is the United States. This is the United States. President’s close allies.
Without reaching an agreement, Graner’s request, Madro resigned by Venezuela President’s special envoy rejected. Granell has always denied that he is being negotiated.
Later, in December 2023, the Biden government replaced Saab with 10 Americans, which was part of the regaining Maduro’s policy before the presidential election.
