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Source: Reuters
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 countrys 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 nations constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing President Nicolas Maduros 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.
Guaidos 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
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)No real skin in the game.
brush
(53,471 posts)as a US puppet.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)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)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.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Guaidó first came up, all over the local Canarian media. Eg. https://www.elcorreo.com/internacional/america-latina/padre-guaido-taxista-20190124131200-nt.html