( Spanish) – The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, proposed this Wednesday to the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, having “a new beginning” in bilateral relations, recalling that there have been “tensions” between the two.
“This is a new beginning for us to bet on win-win and things go well for the United States, things go well for Venezuela and we always advocate for things to go well for Latin America and the Caribbean,” he said during a special program on the television station. state VTV, after Trump won Tuesday’s election against Democrat Kamala Harris.
Maduro said that Venezuela did not do well during the first Trump administration, from 2017 to 2021, and that he hopes this will change in the term that will begin on January 20 (2025-2029).
He added that, although there have been “tensions or strain” in their relationships, he has expressed solidarity with Trump when there have been attacks against him. In July, when Trump was the target of an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania, Maduro was one of the world leaders who condemned the crime.
“I did not hesitate for a second to express my solidarity and wish him good health and long life. Today I wish you luck in your government and that your electoral proposals and offers have a good destiny, a good realization,” he said.
Maduro made these statements in the midst of tensions between his Government and that of the United States because Washington and a part of the international community question the results of the Venezuelan elections of July 28, in which Maduro was declared the winner without that until now the electoral records broken down by voting station have been published. Maduro, who has been supported by allied countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Russia, considers these questions an intervention in the sovereignty of the South American country and says he is ready to begin a new mandate on January 10.
Venezuelan opposition figures congratulated Trump this Wednesday before Maduro did. Edmundo González, candidate of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) and who claims to have won the elections, published a message on his X account, as did the political leader María Corina Machado and the former deputy Juan Guaidó. In his profile on X, González describes himself as “president-elect of Venezuela.”
In August 2017, during Trump’s first term, the US imposed sanctions on Maduro for the installation of the Constituent Assembly, which they considered “illegitimate.” These sanctions included freezing Maduro’s assets subject to US jurisdiction and prohibiting its citizens from conducting transactions with him. Maduro then considered that he was being sanctioned for “telling the truths about the persecutions against the Mexican and Latin American people by the government of Donald Trump.” The US also prohibited US banks from purchasing bonds from the Venezuelan government and the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), among other sanctions.
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