00:00Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are escalating by the day,
00:21especially as President Trump dials up the heat on his counterpart, Nicolas Maduro.
00:28Reports are now emerging, which indicate that Maduro may be cracking under pressure from Trump and the weight of U.S. military might.
00:41According to CNN, Maduro, in a call with President Trump last week,
00:48indicated his readiness to step down as Venezuela's president within the next 18 months.
00:55The report adds that Maduro's administration reached out to representatives of President Trump
01:03in an effort to establish dialogue between the two countries,
01:08which have been locked in a tense conflict for the past three months.
01:15CNN noted that some U.S. officials viewed the 18-month resignation timeline
01:21as an acceptable solution to the crisis.
01:25However, the White House insisted that Maduro must resign immediately.
01:32Following the call, Trump, on November 29th,
01:36announced that Venezuelan airspace had been closed in its entirety.
01:43Venezuela's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the move as a colonialist threat,
01:49accusing Washington of violating the country's sovereignty
01:53and committing what it called yet another illegal and unjustified aggression.
02:00In recent weeks, U.S. forces have deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford,
02:07the world's largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean,
02:11along with roughly 16,000 troops, advanced F-35 jets, B-2 stealth bombers,
02:20and more than a dozen additional U.S. warships.
02:25The U.S. military has also carried out a series of lethal strikes
02:30on vessels it claims were tied to narcotics operations.
02:35United Nations experts have condemned those missions
02:39as possible extrajudicial killings.
02:43The confrontation widened further this week
02:45when President Trump signaled that the U.S. could soon target alleged trafficking routes by land.
02:53Even though Maduro, in a nationally televised address,
02:57ordered his armed forces to remain on high alert
03:00and declared that Venezuela will not be intimidated,
03:05if this CNN report is accurate,
03:08the situation behind closed doors may be very different.
03:14Will there be a full-scale U.S.-Venezuela war?
03:18Or will Venezuela ultimately surrender?
03:23That shall be known in the coming days.
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