In secret talks, US offers pardon to Venezuela's Maduro in return for stepping down: Report
- The U.S. is trying to persuade Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to cede power in exchange for amnesty, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- The U.S. has discussed pardons for Maduro and his top lieutenants facing Justice Department indictments, said sources familiar with the Biden administration.
- A Biden administration member stated the U.S. has "put everything on the table" to encourage Maduro to leave before his term ends in January.
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The Venezuelan president is accused in the United States of narco-terrorism
The Biden administration has offered Nicolás Maduro, according to an exclusive to 'The Wall Street Journal', an amnesty for the charges for persecuting him and members of his Government in the United States in exchange for ceding power to anti-Chavista Edmundo González Urrutia.
The Biden Government would have put 'everything on the table' to try to get Maduro to leave the presidency.
Sources heard by an American publication stated that negotiations include guarantees that the Venezuelan president and his main allies would not be the subject of extradition requests. The United States offered an amnesty to Nicolás Maduro and some of his closest allies, who were subject to lawsuits in the American Department of Justice, in exchange for the president of Venezuela agreeing to leave power before the start of his term of office, wh…
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