U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he spoke with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, «very recently,» but the conversation was not fruitful for reducing Washington's pressure, which, according to the U.S. leader, included the attack on Wednesday on a dock allegedly used by drug traffickers. «I spoke with him. But not much came out of it,» Trump said to the media on Monday when asked if he had recently spoken by phone with the Venezuelan leader. Trump's remarks, made at the start of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Florida residence, came hours after media outlets echoed his statements from last Friday, when he claimed the U.S. attacked a «major installation» used for drug transport. Trump did not specify then whether the target was in Venezuelan territory, nor did he so on Monday. «It was along the coast,» Trump limited himself to commenting on the operation, which took place last Wednesday and in which he assured that «there was a big explosion in the dock area where they load ships with drugs». «They load ships with drugs. So we attacked all the ships, and now we are attacking the area. Very recently.»
