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A tense phone call last week between the White House and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offered the embattled leader one final deal: resign immediately, leave Venezuela with his wife and son, and receive safe passage—or face the full force of an expanding US campaign targeting what Washington has labelled a “narco-terrorist regime.”
According to US media reports, the call—reportedly brokered by Brazil, Qatar, and Turkey—collapsed almost instantly. Maduro demanded global amnesty, control of the armed forces, and time to negotiate an exit, conditions Washington rejected outright.
Days later, President Donald Trump stunned the region by declaring Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety,” warning airlines, drug traffickers, and human smugglers that the order required “immediate attention.” In Venezuela, the statement was widely interpreted as a signal that land operations could begin imminently.
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