Richard Grainel, President Donald Trump, said on Friday that he had returned to the United States with six American citizens.
The Trump administration’s officials in Friday, one of the main purposes of Grenel’s visit, securing the release of Americans detained in Japan when the Trump administration is promoting expulsion and anti -Gampho. He stated that it was to do. US.
Grenel did not name the six men online online and showed him with him. They were wearing a light blue costume used in the Venezuela prison system.
“We have wheels and have returned home with these six American citizens,” Grenel posted to X.
Trump supported the movement in his own post, saying Grenel said, “I brought six hostages from Venezuela.”
It is exactly unknown how many Americans are detained by Venezuela, but Venezuela officials have publicly talked about nine.
Maduro’s officials have accused most of them with terrorism, and some officials said they were high -level “MERC soldiers.” The Venezuela government regularly acclaims members of opposition and foreign detected people to collapse terrorism with the United States. US officials have always denied plots.
“The American hostage held in Venezuela must be released immediately,” said Mauricio Club -Karon, Latin American worries in the United States. Anything. “”
In late 2023, the Benezuela government released dozens of prisoners, including 10 Americans after several months of negotiations, and the United States released Maduro’s close alliance.
Maduro talked to the officials in the annual speech late on Friday in the evening. The meeting between him and Grenel was positive.
“We have reached the first transaction, and when they are complied, new problems are opened, and if possible, we may make new transactions for the interests of both countries and regions,” said Maduro. 。 The discussion with Grenel was reflected in what the United States was told about the meeting.
“President Donald Trump, we have taken the first step. Hopefully we can continue,” said Maduro. “We want to continue that.”
Maduro and Grenel also discussed the migration and sanctions at the Presidential Palace on Friday’s statement.
On Friday, the White House reported on Friday that it focuses on the guarantee that 400 members of the US custody, TREN DE ARAGUA gang, will be returned to Venezuela.
Claver-parone said that the agreement on Tren de Aragua Deportaction was “inability to negotiate.”
Venezuela’s Justice Secretary Talek Saab said last week, gang was dismantled in Venezuela in 2023, but would not resume legal cooperation with the United States to hand over the gang members.
Since his power on January 20, Trump has pledged a large -scale expulsion and has begun to repress drastic immigrants.
Approximately 600,000 US Venezuelans in the United States have been deferred of expulsion of abroad, but the US Secretary of Land Security, Cista Noem, stated that it would shorten the protection period. She must decide whether to end them by Saturday.
Levit said that the visit of Grenel did not mean that the United States recognizes Maduro as a legitimate leader of Venezuela.
The two countries have a recent history of broken relationships, sanctions, and accusations of coup plot.
However, they share interest in some of the two -country two -country issues, including licenses that allow us to operate in Venezuela.
Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has unable to keep the promise of the free presidential election, later increased the rewards or guilty of leaders, including Maduro, and Trump leaves further penalties. After stating, he revived a wide range of petroleum sanctions.
Maduro’s victory in the voting in July 2024 has been contested by opposition parties, international observers, and many countries, including the United States.
The Maduro government has always refused sanctions by the United States, saying that it is an illegal measure equivalent to the “economic war” designed to make Venezuela inconvenienced.
Financial Times reported on Friday that Chevron is trying to protect a special US license that can be operated in Venezuela.
The company, Mike Worth in Chevron, stated that after the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio should reconsider the license, the United States is likely to stop purchasing petroleum from Venezuela, and then the company. He told the newspaper that he would engage with the White House.
