Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dodged a question about an alleged attack on a dock in Venezuela but said he was open to cooperation with the United States after weeks of military pressure.
“Wherever they want and whenever they want,” Maduro said of the idea of dialogue with the US on drug trafficking, oil and migration in an interview on state TV on Thursday.
Maduro’s government has neither confirmed nor denied what US President Donald Trump announced Monday: a US attack on a docking facility that allegedly served Venezuelan drug trafficking boats.
Asked point-blank if he confirmed or denied the attack, Maduro said on Thursday: “This could be something we talk about in a few days.”
The attack would amount to the first known land strike of the US military campaign that the government says is aimed at curbing drug trafficking from Latin America.
Trump said on Monday that the United States hit and destroyed a docking area for alleged Venezuelan drug boats. The president would not say if it was a military or CIA operation or where the strike occurred, noting only that it was “along the shore.”