Caracas is ready to come to the negotiating table, he told state media this week.
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro rejected President Donald Trump’s claims that his government is abetting global narco-trafficking, accusing the White House of inventing a reason to go after the South American country in an interview this week with state media.
Venezuela, he said, is ready to work with American partners to combat the drug trade. And with Trump refusing to rule out the prospect of a military incursion against Caracas, Maduro drew connections to the U.S. war in Iraq.
“And simply, since they cannot accuse me, since they cannot accuse Venezuela of having weapons of mass destruction, since they cannot accuse us of having nuclear rockets, of preparing a nuclear weapon, of having chemical weapons, they invented an accusation that the United States knows is as false as that accusation of weapons of mass destruction, which led them to an eternal war,” he said in remarks recorded Wednesday.
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