Trump: Immediately resign, give your whole family a chance to live; Maduro demands global immunity
The phone call between U.S. President Trump and Venezuelan President Maduro has been disclosed.
U.S. media reported that Trump demanded Maduro to immediately resign and leave the country, in exchange, the United States was willing to provide a safe passage for Maduro himself and his family, giving his family a chance to live.
However, according to reports, Maduro's side did not accept this arrangement. He demanded to retain control over the Venezuelan military and to be granted global criminal immunity for himself and his ruling group.
Both of these demands were immediately rejected by the U.S. side, leading to an unpleasant end to the negotiations.
At present, it is certain that the talks have broken down.
However, what exactly was discussed remains unknown officially.
Therefore, the reliability of this information still remains questionable. The report is entirely based on details provided by anonymous sources, and neither side's government has publicly confirmed the content of the call, let alone acknowledged any discussions about such conditional exchanges.
Diplomatic negotiations are usually highly confidential, and leaked content often carries strong political purposes, likely used by all parties to shape public opinion or test each other's limits.
Therefore, it is possible that the U.S. deliberately released the information, trying to create a public atmosphere where Maduro "confesses", otherwise why would you seek global criminal immunity?
So this kind of disclosure is a targeted release, which both implies to the outside world that Maduro has been cornered, and gives the U.S. action an additional layer of "legitimacy" packaging.
After all, if the public generally believes that Maduro has wavered, any subsequent actions taken by the U.S. will seem reasonable and justified.
As for the real situation, only the two sides know, and what the outside world can see is mainly the final outcome.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1850278327770124/
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