Maduro said he was open to US talks on drug trafficking in interview this weekpublished at 08:41 GMT<\/p>\n
08:41 GMT<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro said he was open to talks with the US on drug trafficking and oil “wherever and whenever they want”.<\/p>\n
In the interview with Venezuelan state TV, Maduro also avoided responding to a statement by US President Donald Trump that the US had hit a docking facility in Venezuela – marking the first such attack inside the country reportedly carried out by the CIA.<\/p>\n
A few days before Maduro’s interview, Trump said the US carried out a strike on a “dock area” linked to alleged Venezuelan drug boats, adding there had been a “major explosion” where “they load the boats up with drugs”.<\/p>\n
It follows weeks of Trump’s ramped up pressure on Maduro, who he accuses of “emptying his prisons and insane asylums” and “forcing” its inmates to migrate to the US – along with using oil money to fund drug-related crime.<\/p>\n
Since September, the US has launched 30 strikes on what it says are drug-smuggling boats, targeting vessels in the Pacific and the Caribbean. <\/p>\n
More than 110 people have been killed since the US carried out its first attack on a boat in international waters on 2 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maduro said he was open to US talks on drug trafficking in interview this weekpublished at 08:41 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-218151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}