Here’s what to know World | Canadian leaders say Trump’s talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn’t funny anymore One is David Estrella, who was last heard from in September, when the 62-year-old native New Yorker was about to take a taxi from Colombia to Venezuela with a bag of perfume, clothes and shoes to gift to friends he made on a previous trip. Maduro congratulated Trump after his victory in November and called for a fresh start in relations with the U.S. Venezuela’s state-owned oil company contributed $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration committee in 2016 and hired several lobbyists in an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to draw close to the White House. “The Maduro regime does not notify the U.S. government of the detention of U.S. citizens, and the U.S. government is not granted access to those citizens,” a State Department spokesperson said.
Author: Associated Press
Published at: 2025-01-08 23:00:15
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