On Monday, the US secretary of state reiterated his oft-repeated call for the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office, traveling to Colombia and meeting with self-proclaimed ‘interim president' Juan Guaido.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has compared the US's strategy of pressure against venezuela to Washington's policy toward Moscow ahead of the collapse of the USSR, assuring that US support for opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido has not been a ‘failure.'
“You know, what I hear is that the strategy is working. I remember how [James] Baker, the former secretary of state [during the George H.W. Bush era], recalled to me that before the fall of the Soviet Union, nobody believed that our strategy was working. But it worked,” Pompeo said, speaking to Colombian TV channel Caracol.
According to Pompeo, the US has been working to “strengthen the people of Venezuela, to make it clear that the world is with them,” and targeting the country with tough sanctions, which he said has made it harder for “the regime.” “The aim of our mission is to force Maduro to leave. I met with Juan Guaido, he told me about the terrorist threat to the people of his country,” Pompeo said.
“Obviously there is more to do…but together we are moving forward, working on this project. We will achieve free and fair presidential elections, and then Venezuelans will have a better, more prosperous and brighter…
