Nicolás Maduro once called Trump a ‘racist cowboy’ but is now seeking rapprochement with the US president-elect
“In his first government … Trump wasn’t good to us this is a new start,” Maduro proclaimed during a live TV broadcast clearly designed as a peace offering to the US president-elect.Maduro – who has also previously called Trump a mentally ill crook who handles foreign affairs like “a New York mafia extortionist” – even parroted the US tycoon’s nationalist catchphrase.
Christopher Sabatini, a Chatham House Latin America expert, said he saw “a very strong tendency” for Trump to take a dramatically different approach towards Venezuela than during his 2017-21 term. Towards the end of his first presidency, Trump said he was open to a get-together with Hugo Chávez’s authoritarian heir,“I don’t exclude the possibility that he seeks to do something similar with Nicolás Maduro,” Latin America specialist Michael Shifter toldFrom Maduro’s perspective, fixing relations with his foe might represent a way of escaping the pariah status imposed on his regime after Venezuela’s July election, which even longtime regional allies such as Colombia and Brazil...
But Naím believed any bid to normalize relations with Maduro would face fierce opposition from the “deeply anti-Maduro” Venezuelan immigrant community in south Florida who overwhelmingly backed Trump in the election and whose attitude would be: “over their dead bodies”.
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