Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro condemned Trump’s embrace of Guaido while socialist party boss Diosdado Cabello vowed to retaliate for the meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he welcomes Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido at the White House, in Washington, on Feb. 5, 2020.Six American oil executives under house arrest in Venezuela were rounded up by police hours after President Donald Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s chief opponent at the White House, according to family members of the men.
But the move comes two months after the men were granted house arrest and just hours after Trump welcomed opposition leader Juan Guaido to the White House in a show of support for his flagging, year-old campaign to oust Maduro. The six men were hauled away by masked security agents while at a meeting in Caracas just before Thanksgiving in 2017. They had been lured to Venezuela in order to attend a meeting at the headquarters of Citgo’s parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA.
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence in April called for the men’s release after meeting with family members at the White House.
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