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Within the framework of the crisis in Venezuela, an intervention was raised in 2017 to Donald Trump's advisors, including US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson and the national security advisor, H. R. McMaster (who left the Trump administration from that moment on) and later to several presidents of Latin American countries, among those, Juan Manuel Santos. [1]
[6] [7] Intervention by the United States in Venezuela was criticized by allies of Nicolás Maduro and political figures from the left spectrum; [8] Maduro's government stated that the crisis was a "coup d'état led by the United States to topple him and control the country's oil reserves."
During the Spanish American wars of independence, the United States was officially neutral but permitted Spanish American agents to obtain weapons and supplies.With the reception of Manuel Torres in 1821, the Gran Colombia (present-day Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, northern Peru, Venezuela, western Guyana and northwest Brazil) became the first former Spanish colony recognized by the United States ...
A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said that “a U.S. military member” had been detained in Venezuela and that it was aware of unconfirmed reports of two additional U.S. citizens ...
Neither Venezuela nor Guyana have militaries that are ready for a full-scale war – but that may not stop Nicolás Maduro from manufacturing a crisis. Venezuela’s military may prompt a crisis ...
Venezuela's statement did not deny Guyana's claim of a military and infrastructure buildup. Rather, it said it was within its rights to beef up its border forces.
Maduro accused the United States of backing a coup and said he would cut ties with them. [148] He said Guaidó's actions were part of a "well-written script from Washington" to create a puppet state of the United States, [149] and appealed to the American people in a 31 January video, asking them not to "convert Venezuela into another Vietnam ...
Human Rights Watch, Venezuela Events of 2021, accessed Sept. 28, 2022. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Fact-checking claim on Venezuela sending prisoners to the US ...