The call between Trump and Maduro would have occurred last week, according to the New York newspaper, in the midst of tensions between the US and Venezuela. However, there are no plans for a summit between the two presidents for now.
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Mexico City, November 28 (However).– The President of the United States (EU), Donald Trumpthere would be spoken on the phone with his counterpart Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroto discuss a possible meeting between both of them, in the middle of the growing tensions for a possible invasion o military attackthe newspaper revealed this Friday The New York Times.
The text, signed by reporter Maggie Haberman, who knows the Trump world and its sources like few others, as well as by Anatoly Kurmanaev, cites “several sources with knowledge of the matter.” The call between Trump and Maduro would have taken place “at the end of last week,” according to two people.
The message “included a discussion about a possible meeting between the two men in the US,” but “there are no plans at the moment for such a meeting,” one of the people said. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, who recently declared to the Cartel of the Suns, supposedly headed by Maduro, as an international terrorist organization.
Trump had warned this Thursday that his government “very soon” will take to land the military operations against Venezuela, which have been considered extrajudicial by the United Nations (UN) for having left more than 70 people dead without evidence that the victims were related to drug trafficking.
“In recent weeks they have been working [los militares] to deter Venezuela and the drug traffickers, who are many, […] They no longer come by sea,” the US president said at a press conference from his residence in Florida.
“We’re already doing a lot. You’ve probably noticed, since you send your poisons [drogas] to the United States, where they kill hundreds of thousands of people a year,” added the White House tenant, in addition to stating that his administration will take care of “that situation.”
For his part, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, declared on Thursday that “there is no threat or aggression” that “frightens” his country or takes it “by surprise.” In this sense, he said that the Venezuelan people “have prepared with serenity to defend their homeland, their soil, their seas, their sky, their soul and their history, with [Simón] Bolívar in front”.
In this regard, Maduro alluded to polls that indicate that “82 percent of Venezuelans say they are willing to defend their sacred homeland with weapons in hand.”
Since August 2025, the United States government carried out a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean that it later called Operation Southern Spear, supposedly with the purpose of “eliminating narcoterrorists” from the Western Hemisphere and “protecting the United States from the drugs that are killing” its citizens.
In this framework, a series of operations have been carried out that have left more than 70 people dead without evidence that the victims were trafficking drugs, which is why the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH), Volker Türk, has indicated that these attacks are extrajudicial that “violate international human rights law.”
Already on Monday, the US government designated the Cartel of the Suns, a criminal group allegedly directed by Maduro, as a foreign terrorist organization, in another step in the escalation of tensions between both countries, under the shadow of a possible military intervention.
This is confirmed by the official list of the US State Department, which declares the Cartel of the Suns as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (OTE) this Monday, November 24. OTEs are “foreign organizations designated by the Secretary of State” and “play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of reducing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the business of terrorism,” the State Department says.
The White House He has long maintained that at the top of the Venezuelan State resides the leadership of a criminal organization, to which he attributes the shipment of illegal drugs to the United States and responsibility for the deaths of American citizens.
With this designation, the US military and security forces would have more powers to take direct action and dismantle “terrorist” organizations, as Trump has foreseen in some of his statements.
Such actions have been condemned by heads of state such as the Colombian Gustavo Petro, the Mexican Claudia Sheinbaum and Maduro himself. The Venezuelan government responded with a statement from its Foreign Ministry in which it rejected “categorically, firmly and absolutely the new and ridiculous hoax of the Secretary of the United States Department of State, Marco Rubio”, which designates the “non-existent” Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist organization.