(Reuters) – President Donald Trump said today that the United States may open talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who faces escalating pressure from Washington amid a massive U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean.
It was one of the first signs of a possible path toward defusing an increasingly tense situation in the region as the U.S. wages a campaign of deadly strikes against suspected drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
“We may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out,” Trump told reporters today in West Palm Beach, Florida, before getting on a f
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