{"id":36647,"date":"2025-12-01T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36647"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:55:11","slug":"maduro-resurfaces-in-caracas-as-trump-says-he-has-spoken-to-venezuelan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/maduro-resurfaces-in-caracas-as-trump-says-he-has-spoken-to-venezuelan-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro resurfaces in Caracas, as Trump says he has spoken to Venezuelan president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN:<\/strong> Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro made his first public appearance in days on Sunday, putting to an end speculation within the country that he had fled amid escalating tensions with the US.<\/p>\n

Maduro, who usually appears on Venezuelan television multiple times a week, had not been seen in public since Wednesday \u2013 when he posted a video of himself driving around Caracas on his Telegram channel \u2013 leading to intense speculation as to his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he appeared at an annual specialty-coffee awards event in eastern Caracas.<\/p>\n

In images that were broadcast online, the president sat before a crowd and handed out medals to coffee producers showcasing their top products. He sipped various coffees while delivering brief remarks \u2013 none of which openly addressed the current crisis in the country.<\/p>\n

At the end of the event, he chanted that Venezuela is \u201cindestructible, untouchable, unbeatable\u201d while speaking about the nation\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

The remarks appeared to be a nod to the tensions with the US, which has sent more than a dozen warships and deployed roughly 15,000 troops to the region as part of what it says is an effort to combat drug trafficking \u2013 but Caracas believes is an attempt to force Maduro from office.<\/p>\n

Maduro\u2019s appearance at the coffee awards event came just moments after US President Donald Trump confirmed he had spoken with the Venezuelan leader on the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to comment on that \u2013 the answer is yes,\u201d Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked whether the call had taken place. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it went well or badly. It was a phone call.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have reported that Trump and Maduro spoke by phone earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Maduro and senior members of his government have not commented on the phone call with Trump.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, who heads Venezuela\u2019s National Assembly, declined to discuss the conversation, saying it was not the purpose of his press conference \u2013 which instead focused on announcing an inquiry into recent US maritime strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean that have killed more than 80 people.<\/p>\n

In recent days, the US president has increased the pressure on Maduro by warning that strikes on land against drug trafficking networks could be coming \u201cvery soon\u201d and telling airlines, pilots and criminal networks to avoid Venezuelan airspace.<\/p>\n

However, speaking on Air Force One on Sunday, Trump told reporters his warning about Venezuelan airspace was not a signal that an airstrike is imminent.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t read anything into it,\u201d the president said, adding he made the airspace warning \u201cbecause we consider Venezuela to be not a very friendly country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN: Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro made his first public appearance in days on Sunday, putting to an end speculation within the country that he had fled amid escalating tensions with the US. Maduro, who usually appears on Venezuelan television multiple times a week, had not been seen in public since Wednesday \u2013 when he posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36650,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions\/36650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}