Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected US allegations of being a drug trafficker and asked President Donald Trump for dialogue, according to a letter released Sunday by Caracas, as tensions soar between the two countries.

The letter addressed to Trump is dated September 6 and was sent days after the United States deployed warships off the coast of Venezuela and carried out the first of several attacks on Venezuela-based boats alleged by Washington to be carrying drugs.

That first attack left 11 people dead and two more strikes have followed, despite Maduro's letter with his plea for peace.

In the missive, Maduro -- whose July 2024 reelection was seen by the opposition and much of the international community as fraudulent -- rejected as "absolutely false" US allegations that he lea

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