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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Sat May 11, 2019, 05:41 PM May 2019

Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MAY 11, 2019 / 3:25 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Saturday he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with Pentagon officials to “cooperate” on a solution to the South American country’s political crisis.

Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, added he had received word from China that the country would join a diplomatic effort between European and Latin American countries, known as the International Contact Group on Venezuela, to negotiate an end to the crisis.

In January, Guaido invoked the OPEC nation’s constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing President Nicolas Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate. He has been recognized by most Western and Latin American countries, but Maduro has retained the support of allies China, Russia and Cuba.

Guaido’s effort to oust Maduro so he can take power and call new elections has stalled in recent weeks, after an attempted military uprising on April 30 was put down. Guaido told an Italian newspaper this week that he would “probably” accept a U.S. military intervention if the United States proposed it.

“We have instructed our ambassador Carlos Vecchio to meet immediately ... with the Southern Command and its admiral to establish a direct relationship,” Guaido said at a rally in Caracas on Saturday. “We have said from the beginning that we will use all the resources at our disposal to build pressure.”

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-guaido-seeks-u-s-pentagon-cooperation-to-solve-political-crisis-idUSKCN1SH0L3
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Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis (Original Post) Eugene May 2019 OP
What a pathetic crybaby. Ghost Dog May 2019 #1
Sounds like he's dying for the US military to invade and install him... brush May 2019 #2
Precisely. Ghost Dog May 2019 #3
What would all the snots who've been mocking Maduro since Chavez got sick, and they knew Maduro Judi Lynn May 2019 #4
I read about him, when the nane Ghost Dog May 2019 #5
I don't think anyone cares what the father does but bus driver is not very good prep for president EX500rider May 2019 #6
 

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
3. Precisely.
Sat May 11, 2019, 07:07 PM
May 2019

Wouldn't dare lift a finger otherwise. Because: zero popular domestic support.

(Do folks know, btw, that his father is a humble taxi driver in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain? I guess his well-off mother kicked his probably handsome but ordinary-guy father out... eventually, after using him up).

Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
4. What would all the snots who've been mocking Maduro since Chavez got sick, and they knew Maduro
Sun May 12, 2019, 02:43 AM
May 2019

would succeed him, as any Vice-President succeeds the President, ridiculing him for the part of his life when he had to drive a bus to survive, have to say about that?

That's right, a TAXI DRIVER for the father of the very much whiter Savior of the oligarchy.

So glad you shared that information! I know the fascists would swoon with joy after making such extravagant fools of themselves mocking Maduro's humble beginnings.

Thanks, thanks, and thanks.

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