The U.S. Sonderstanded Grenell traveled to Venezuela to talk about the deportation of migrants. Specific results were not known. Instead, Venezuela released six US citizens.
The United States actually wants to arrest the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and have even suspended a million reward. But now the US specialist Richard Grenell has traveled to Venezuela to negotiate with the leadership of the withdrawal of deported migrants-and has obviously had a success in another area: the South American country left six detained Americans.
President Donald Trump was pleased. Grenell brought “six hostages” home from Venezuela, wrote Trump on the X. Grenell platform, in turn posted a photo on which he smiles into the camera with the six released. “We are in the air and return with these six American citizens,” he wrote. The reason for the detention of the Americans in Venezuela was initially not known.
USA want to deport migrants to Venezuela
Maduro himself had pleaded with the USA for a “fresh start in bilateral relationships” in the run -up to the meeting. According to a declaration of his government, which was spread with Grenell after the meeting with Grenell, the conversation was particularly concerned with “migration, the negative effects of economic sanctions against Venezuela, US citizens who are involved in Venezuelan territory in crimes and the integrity of the political system of Venezuela” . Maduro “expressed his willingness to keep the diplomatic channels open to the United States of America”.
This week, the new US government had lifted protection status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States. Trump's predecessor Joe Biden had extended the status by another 18 months a few days before the end of his term. The Ministry of Homele Protection was justified by the decision at the time with the “severe humanitarian emergency, in which the country is under the inhumane Maduro regime due to the political and economic crisis”.
Richard Grenell meets Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Reward for Maduro's arrest
Grenell's visit came less than a month after Maduro sworn in for a third term – after an election overshadowed by allegations of fraud, nationwide protests and international criticism. The United States did not recognize Maduro's claim to the election victory and, together with Canada, Great Britain and the EU, imposed sanctions against high -ranking civil servants.
The US State Department also increased the rewards to up to $ 25 million for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Maduro and his Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello. Trump has announced a hard line opposite Maduro and other left -wing heads of Latin America. Despite his anti-migrant attitude, Trump even supports some US citizens with Venezuelan roots.
