Venezuela’s Maduro says he is open to face-to-face talks with Trump as US ships approach

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro showed on Monday that he is open to direct talks with the Trump Administration, calling raplomacy instead of a US warship that almost joined almost a dozen warships of his sloref.

The administration accuses Maduro of facilitating drug trafficking in the United States, but the Venezuelan leader says the US is trying to destroy it.

“Those who want to talk to Venezuela will talk,” Maduro said in Spanish, adding in English: “face to face.”

The Venezuelan leader made the comments on his television program, which aired in Venezuela on Monday. He was asked by an interviewer to report that President Trump was considering talking to him.

“Venezuela’s position is unwavering: Full respect for international law. We strongly reject the threat or use of force to impose laws between countries,” said Maduro. “We also confirm that our constitution, and our people say: It must be free organizations must be understood. Governments must seek a common place through dialogue.”

Maduro’s comments came hours after President Trump said he would agree to talk to the Venezuelan leader, while refusing to send US troops on the ground in Venezuela.

Mr. Trump accuses Maduro of working in collaboration with drug cartels that traffic narcotics in the US, and the Venezuelan leader has been charged in the US Criminal Court. President Trump he recently told CBS News’ 60 Minutes That he believed in Maduro’s days in power and was counted.

Maduro has denied all allegations that he is working with cartels and said he believes the drug-trafficking claims are the basis of the US military’s operation to remove him from power.

Maduro “has done a lot of damage to our country, mainly because of drugs, but actually because of this problem with other countries, the release of prisoners in our country has been a disaster,” Mr Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday. “He’s emptied his prisons. Others have done that too. He hasn’t been good in the United States. So we’ll see what happens. At some point I’ll be talking to him.”

The Trump administration has so far produced no evidence whatsoever for claims that Venezuela intentionally sent criminals to the US

On Sunday, Mr Trump told reporters that “we may have some talks with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out.”

US forces have been ramping up military exercises throughout the Caribbean for weeks, and Charlie D’Agata Charlie D’Agata said the USS Gerald R. Ford – the most advanced aircraft carrier in the world – was at the highest level of airspace in Venezuela since Tuesday morning.

Ford arrived as the US moved into it organize the “Cartel de Los Soles” The group as a terrorist organization – Shift Mr Trump could open the door to direct Venezuelan assets and infrastructure.

D’Agata reported on Tuesday that there are now almost 15,000 US forces in the sea in the region and on land in Puerto Rico, where FT FITAL Fritter Jets were shown flying almost around the clock.

The American military continued It hits at least 22 ships That the Trump administration did not say that they were transporting drugs to South America, killed at least 83 people.

Maduro has denied those incidents – the authenticity of which will be questioned by rights groups, United nations, Other countries in the regionagain other legislators In the US – since they started in September.