Trump -Official Travels to Venezuela to negotiate on the Department of Direction of Tren de Aragua -Band Members

President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, has traveled to Venezuela to deliver a personal message to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro to accept violent criminals deported from the United States.

On a call with journalists on Friday, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the US special envoy to Latin America, said Grenell will ask Maduro to take all the Venezuelan criminals and Tren de Aragua-Below members who have been “exported to the United States and do it unequivocally and without condition.

Grenell will also require Veneuzeula to immediately release American hostages held in this country, Claver-Carone said.

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RIC Grenell, formerly National Intelligence Director of Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 17, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

The trip “Focuses on two very specific questions. That we expect Venezuelan criminals and gangs to be returned as they are, to each country in the world, with no relationship, and two, that American hostages should be released immediately, unequivocally,” he explained .

“This is not a Quid Pro Quo. It’s not a negotiation in return for anything. President Trump himself has made it very clear.”

The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Friday that Grenell had arrived in Venezuela on orders from the president.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a news conference at Miraflore’s presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed re -election. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Despite widespread faith among Venezuelans and much of the international community that Maduro lost the Venezuelan presidential election in 2024 to opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutiahe was sworn into his third six -year period earlier this month.

The United States does not recognize Maduro as the legitimate State State of Venezuela.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado has called on Venezuelan citizens to protest against the Maduro regime and demand that González be installed as the rightful president of Venezuela.

Details of Venezuelan opposition leaders possible arrest remain unclear in the middle of Maduro inauguration resistance

Still image from Social Media Video shows suspected Juvenile Tren de Aragua members based on Roosevelt Hotel, which allegedly attacked the nearby Times Square in a number of robberies. (Obtained by New York Post)

As many as 10 Americans are currently detained in Venezuela, although the state department has not declared them unlawfully withheld. Three are American citizens who allegedly participated in a plot to destabilize the country, according to Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello.

The Ministry of State has denied any American involvement with a plot to overthrow Maduro.

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It remains unclear how many Americans are currently being held in Venezuela after the significant prisoner swap in 2023 when Washington and Caracas negotiated release of dozens of prisonersIncluding 10 Americans, in return for Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close ally by Maduro.

Saab was arrested during the first Trump administration on charges related to a $ 350 million bribery scheme.