The United States has offered President Nicolas Maduro “to go to Russia” or to another country, US Senator Markwayne Mullin said in an interview with CNN.
“By the way, we gave Maduro an opportunity to leave,” assured the Republican senator from Oklahoma. “We told him he could go to Russia or go to another country,” he added.
These statements come at a time of very high tension between the United States and Venezuela, noted AFP. US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of armed forces to the Caribbean Sea and warned yesterday that he considers Venezuela’s airspace “totally closed” after sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the area.
The billionaire Republican justifies these operations with accusations that Caracas is behind the drug trafficking that floods the market in the United States. Nicolás Maduro denies the accusations and says Washington is using a pretext to oust him, trigger regime change in Venezuela and get its hands on its oil reserves. Yesterday, his government ordered military exercises along the Venezuelan coast.
In power since 2013, the Socialist president is the political heir to Hugo Chavez, a figurehead of the radical Latin American left. He was re-elected in 2024 after a disputed election marred by riots and arrests. “The Venezuelan people themselves have also spoken out and said they want a new leader and to restore Venezuela as a country,” Mullin continued on CNN.
Yesterday, another Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, also spoke openly about regime change in Venezuela. “For more than a decade, Maduro has controlled the drug state that is poisoning America,” he said in X, calling the Venezuelan president an “illegitimate leader.” /BTA
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