Santo Domingo:
The United States confiscated on Thursday a second plane belonging to the Venezuelan government in less than a year during a visit to the Dominican Republic by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, despite the nascent diplomacy with the leftist leader Nicolas Maduro.
Rubio traveled to a military landing floor in the capital, Santo Domingo, where, in front of the cameras, a prosecutor of the Dominican Republic and representative of the American law together recorded a sign that said “seized” in a Jet 200 by Dassault Falcon 200 with a Venezuelan flag.
The authorities of the Dominican Republic arrested the plane last year after the US authorities said he had violated the unilateral sanctions of the United States against Venezuela.
Venezuelan officials used the plane to fly to Greece, Turkey, Russia, Nicaragua and Cuba, and had taken him to the Dominican Republic for maintenance, according to the United States Department of State.
Maduro’s Minister of Petroleum also used the plane to attend an OPEC oil poster meeting in the United Arab Emirates in 2019, according to the Treasury Department.
In September, the United States, then led by President Joe Biden, announced the seizure of another Venezuelan government plane in the Dominican Republic that had been used to transport Maduro on international trips.
President Donald Trump has long promised a hard line over Venezuela and in his first term he sought unsuccessfully to eliminate Maduro, who has faced a great international interrogation about the legitimacy of his electoral victories.
But a Trump envoy, Richard Grenelll, traveled last week to Caracas to meet Maduro, ensuring the release of six American prisoners.
Venezuela said the conversations were held with “mutual respect”, but Rubio and other US officials have insisted that there was no decline in the United States refusal to accept Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and was automatically generated from a union feed).
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