Richard Grenell, former US president Donald Trump's envoy for special missions, returned from Venezuela with six freed American prisoners after securing a commitment from Venezuela's leader Nicolás Maduro to accept deported migrants. The talks, described as 'respectful' by the Venezuelan government, also touched on migration, sanctions, and detained US citizens. Grenell's visit, which came ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's trip to Latin America, aims to demonstrate renewed US interest in the region.
Donald Trump ’s crisis negotiator returned from Venezuela with six freed American prisoners after securing a commitment from the South American country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro to accept deported migrants. Richard Grenell, the US president’s envoy for special missions, travelled to Venezuela on Friday to press Maduro to accept thousands of Venezuela n deportees, according to US officials, and to secure the release of US nationals taken prisoner by Caracas.
“They’ve treated us not so good, but they’ve treated, more importantly, the Venezuelan people, very badly.” Grenell said in a post on X on January 20 that “diplomacy is back”, saying he had held “multiple conversations with Venezuelan officials” and that “talking is a tactic”. He held a private meeting with Maduro’s top political operator Jorge Rodríguez in Mexico in 2020 in the final days of the first Trump administration.
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