Venezuela He released six American citizens detained in their territory on Friday, who returned to the North American country along with the special envoy of President Donald Trump, Richard Grenelll. Grenelll himself reported the release after his meeting with Nicolás Maduro.
From the social network X the special envoy of Trump shared a photograph with the Americans inside a plane, without details about their identities. He also shared videos and then a photo of his arrival in the United States.
We are home.
God Bless these America. pic.twitter.com/l36mnkveom
– Richard Grenelll (@richardgrell) February 1, 2025
Trump celebrated liberation. “They just informed me that we will bring six hostages from Venezuela home. Thanks to Ric Grenelll and all my staff. Good job! ”He wrote his social network, Truth Social.
The Caracas – Washington relationship
After Maduro’s meeting with Grenelll at the Palacio de Miraflores, the Chavista administration explained in a statement that one of the “various issues of interest to both countries” addressed had been the situation of “American citizens involved in crimes in national territory,” as well as migration and the “negative” impact of economic sanctions.
Caracas expressed his willingness to maintain “open diplomatic channels” with the US, a country that Maduro “raised the construction” of a “zero agenda for a new beginning in bilateral relations”, broken since 2019.
In the hall where the meeting was held, with the flags of Venezuela and the US, there was also the president of Parliament and Chief negotiator of Maduro, Jorge Rodríguez, who represented the Chavista in meetings with officials of the previous US administration.
Maduro says he reached “first agreements” with the USA.
Nicolás Maduro, who swore as president of Venezuela on January 10 after his questioned re -election last July, said Friday that he reached “first agreements” with the United States at the meeting with Grenelll.
“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 fulfilled, they will open new issues, hopefully for new agreements, for the good of the two of the two countries and our entire region, ”said Maduro in an act on the occasion of the beginning of Judicial Year 2025, transmitted by the state channel VTV.
Washington, who reiterated the same Friday that does not recognize Maduro as president, previously clarified that Grenelll’s mission in Venezuela was “very specific”, and that aimed to achieve the release of Americans detained in Venezuelan prisons, as well as to achieve That Caracas accept deportation flights of undocumented migrants.
Maduro: Venezuela is prepared together with Cuba and Nicaragua to “take arms”, if necessary
Maduro said that he will be “very pending” that, after this “frank, direct, open” meeting with Grenelll, what is communicated is faithful to what was conversed in the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, headquarters of the Executive, where he said he asked to have asked for a ” New start of historical relations ”between the two countries -without diplomatic ties since 2019 -, in which“ what is to be rectified, rectifies ”.
With information from EFE and Latin press.
