{"id":193610,"date":"2025-12-14T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-reportedly-gave-maduro-ultimatum-to-relinquish-power-in-venezuela-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:24:19","slug":"trump-reportedly-gave-maduro-ultimatum-to-relinquish-power-in-venezuela-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-reportedly-gave-maduro-ultimatum-to-relinquish-power-in-venezuela-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reportedly gave Maduro ultimatum to relinquish power in Venezuela – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

US president sent a \u2018blunt message\u2019 to his South American counterpart, sources say
Analysis: Trump\u2019s pardon of Honduras\u2019s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is \u2018based on lies and hypocrisy\u2019<\/a>
How US campaign against Venezuela has unfolded<\/a>
Donald Trump reportedly gave Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> an ultimatum to relinquish power immediately during their recent call \u2013 but Venezuela\u2019s authoritarian leader declined, demanding a \u201cglobal amnesty\u201d for himself and allies.
On Sunday, the US president confirmed the call had taken place, telling reporters: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it went well or badly, it was a phone call.\u201d
Neither the US nor Venezuelan government have offered further details of the topics discussed during the highly unusual conversation, which is thought to have happened on 21 November.
But sources told the Miami Herald<\/a> the US president had sent a \u201cblunt message\u201d to his South American counterpart, who is the focus of a four-month pressure campaign in which Trump has ordered a massive naval deployment off Venezuela\u2019s northern coast.
\u201cYou can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,\u201d Trump reportedly said, offering safe passage for Maduro, his wife and his son \u201conly if he agreed to resign right away\u201d.
However, Venezuela\u2019s president reportedly refused to step down immediately and allegedly made a series of counter-demands, including worldwide immunity from prosecution and being allowed to cede political control but keep control of the armed forces.
The newspaper said there had been no further direct contact between Trump and Maduro, although Maduro reportedly requested a second call last weekend after Trump declared Venezuela\u2019s airspace \u201cclosed in its entirety\u201d<\/a>. \u201cThe Maduro government \u2026 received no response,\u201d the Miami Herald claimed, saying the first discussion had been brokered by Brazil, Qatar and Turkey.
On Monday Maduro told thousands of supporters that Venezuela did not want \u201ca slave\u2019s peace\u201d.
\u201cWe want peace, but peace with sovereignty, equality, freedom! We do not want a slave\u2019s peace, nor the peace of colonies!\u201d Maduro said at a rally in Caracas.
Despite the leaked claim that Trump had given Maduro an ultimatum, many observers are sceptical the US president intends to back his threats up with large-scale military action.
\u201cMaduro and most of his cohorts view the US military threats as a bluff,\u201d a source with regular contact with top Venezuela officials told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> last month.
Since his election in 2013, the Venezuelan leader has survived a succession of crises, including Trump\u2019s first-term \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign, several rounds of mass protests, a historic economic meltdown, a 2018 assassination attempt<\/a> and apparent defeat in last year\u2019s presidential election, which Maduro is widely believed to have lost to the former diplomat Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal urged Trump\u2019s administration to continue ramping up the pressure on Venezuela and said it believed \u201cdeposing Maduro is in the US national interest\u201d. Its editorial board said: \u201cIf Maduro refuses to leave, and Trump shrinks from acting to depose him, Trump and the credibility of the US will be the losers.\u201d
In an attempt to find a peaceful solution, Colombia\u2019s president, Gustavo Petro, offered the Colombian city of Cartagena as a possible location for talks between Maduro\u2019s regime and Venezuela\u2019s opposition.
In a letter to Opec published by Venezuelan state media on Sunday, Maduro accused the US of seeking to \u201cappropriate Venezuela\u2019s vast oil reserves \u2013 the largest on the planet \u2013 through the lethal use of military force\u201d.<\/p>\n

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US president sent a \u2018blunt message\u2019 to his South American counterpart, sources sayAnalysis: Trump\u2019s pardon of Honduras\u2019s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is \u2018based on lies and hypocrisy\u2019How US campaign against Venezuela has unfoldedDonald Trump reportedly gave Nicol\u00e1s Maduro an ultimatum to relinquish power immediately during their recent call \u2013 but Venezuela\u2019s authoritarian leader declined, demanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}