Useful Voices: How Maduro Exploits the US Debate on Venezuela
Maduro & Co. instructed its network of media and trolls to multiply arguments from Democrats and liberal media that match the dictatorship’s talking points
Trump and Stephen Miller pushed a new, disputed reading of Venezuelan oil history. Rubio kept to the national-security frame.
“The most important threat in the region is these criminal terrorist groups. This is the threat Colombia faces, the threat the entire hemisphere faces, and it is the root of the violence in Mexico, Ecuador, across all of Central America—throughout all these countries. It is the region’s primary threat. We therefore have governments that cooperate with our efforts against this threat: Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic. Many cooperate.
We continue to have very good relations with Colombia’s security teams. I understand that Colombia’s president is an unusual person, but beyond that, at the institutional level, we have very good relations. And with Mexico as well. The Mexican government is doing more right now on security than at any point in its history. There is still much to be done, but we have cooperation.
When it comes to Venezuela, we do not have that. We have a regime that not only does not cooperate with the United States, but openly cooperates with criminal elements.”
This regime-change push looks nothing like the effort led by Guaidó and Leopoldo. That experience helps to explain Trump today
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