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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Maduro urges Trump to abandon ‘illegal warmongering’ and start ‘serious talks’

Nicolás Maduro speaks into a mic
Nicolás Maduro rejected Donald Trump’s claim that he heads a ‘narco-terrorist’ organisation flooding the US with drugs. Photograph: Reuters

The Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, has urged Donald Trump to abandon his “illegal warmongering” and begin “serious talks” with his administration as mystery continued to surround a purported pre-Christmas CIA airstrike on the South American country.

Speaking during an hour-long TV interview, Maduro declined to confirm reports of the apparent US attack, which would be the first on Venezuelan soil since Trump began his five-month campaign of military pressure in August.

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