On the night of December 24, Maduro ate the last hallacas Homemade, a traditional Venezuelan Christmas dish. Nicolás Maduro, according to White House sources and Donald Trump himself, will not set foot in Miraflores Palace again and will sit in the dock—in a US court—to answer the accusations leveled against him for drug trafficking. This week, the now-deposed president, speaking from the presidential complex in an interview with Venezuelan state television, described his last conversation with his Washington counterpart: "I think the conversation was pleasant, but the events following the conversation have not been pleasant." A path of almost 14 years that, with Trump's arrival, has accelerated the Venezuelan leader's downfall. to fall into the hands of an alleged Pentagon surgical operation