Trump gave the Venezuelan president a week to leave the country. The deadline expired last Friday
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December 1
2025
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(Updated at 11:17 p.m.)
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Nicolas Maduro has ignored US President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to leave Venezuela, alleging US interference in seeking to control the country’s natural resources, while Maduro’s requests for guarantees and pardons have been rejected.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spent the weekend without leaving the country, ignoring a week-long ultimatum from the United States government to leave Venezuelan territory, according to Reuters. Reuters. The deadline imposed by US President Donald Trump in a phone call on November 21 expired on Friday.
During this period, Washington ordered attacks on boats accused of transporting drugs in the Caribbean, threatened to expand military operations to dry lands, and designated the Cartel de los Soles, which, according to the United States, would include Maduro, as a terrorist organization. The Venezuelan president denies all accusations and claims that the Americans want to overthrow him to control the country’s natural resources, such as oil.
During the call, Maduro told Trump that he would agree to leave Venezuela if he received broad guarantees: a comprehensive pardon for him and his family, the removal of all sanctions and an end to the process he faces at the International Criminal Court, according to three sources from the international organization. Reuters.
He also called for the lifting of sanctions imposed on more than 100 members of his government, many of whom the United States accuses of corruption, human rights violations or links to drug trafficking.
According to two sources, Maduro also proposed that Vice President Delcy Rodriguez take over an interim government until new elections are held. Trump rejected almost all of the demands. The conversation lasted less than 15 minutes, and the US President only offered Maduro the possibility of leaving the country within a week with his family to the destination of his choice.
As the deadline passed, Trump announced on Saturday that Venezuela’s airspace was closed, according to two sources. Part of this conversation has already been revealed by Miami HeraldBut the one-week deadline is not yet known.