‘A new start’: Venezuelan leader extends olive branch to Donald Trump
Nicolás Maduro once called Trump a ‘racist cowboy’ but is now seeking rapprochement with the US president-elect
During his first administration, Donald Trump waged a “maximum pressure” campaign against Nicolás Maduro, unsuccessfully trying to depose Venezuela’s authoritarian leader with an arsenal of sanctions, cyber-attacks and threats.
But this week Maduro extended an olive branch to a man he once called “a miserable racist cowboy”, fuelling speculation that Trump’s second presidency might witness an unlikely rapprochement between the two strongman survivors.
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