Donald Trump said that sending military to Venezuela "is an option" and that he rejected a request for Nicolás Maduro's meeting

US President Donald Trump said that sending military personnel to Venezuela was "an option" and that he had rejected a request for a meeting with President Nicolás Maduro, in an interview repeated Sunday. by the network. CBS.

"Certainly, it's something that's in … it's an option"Trump said in the program Facing the nation and in front of a question from journalist Margaret Brennan.

During the interview, the reporter also asked a possible meeting between Trump and the chavist leader to negotiate the exit from the political, social and economic crisis affecting Venezuela.

"Well, he (Maduro) asked for a meeting and I rejected it because we are very advanced in the process," he said.

"You have a young and energetic man," he continued, apparently in reference to the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, who was elected interim president of Venezuela by the National Assembly, in defiance of the Chavez regime, and now calls for the resignation of Maduro to then call free elections. "But there are also other people in your same group who have been very, if you talk about democracy … we really see democracy in action"he said.

"At the time, I decided that" no " [me reuniría con Maduro], so many horrible things were happening in Venezuela. This country was the richest in this part of the world, which is very important. And now you look at poverty, anxiety and crime, and everything that's going on. So I think the process is just growing, with very, very big and huge protests "he explained.