President Donald Trump denied having talked with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, or with military leaders about a possible regime change in Venezuela
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, denied on Thursday, September 18, having had conversations with members of his government to plan a “regime change” in Venezuela.
The Republican told the press aboard the presidential plane Air Force One, during his return to Washington after his state visit to the United Kingdom, where he signed technological cooperation agreements.
A journalist asked if he has had conversations with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, or with military leaders about a possible regime change in Venezuela, to which Trump responded with a brief: “No, I have not done it.”
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In an event in Paraguay, President Richard Grenelll’s special envoy said there is still space for an agreement with the administration of Nicolás Maduro. “There are a lot of tools that the US government can use from the Pacific side before we have to transfer the file to those who are ready and equipped to go to war.”
The United States maintains deployed, near the Venezuelan coast, eight military ships with missiles and a nuclear propulsion submarine that, according to the North American country, are part of an operation to combat drug trafficking, but that the Maduro administration considers an attempt to propitiate a “regime change” in their country.
According to Trump, the US forces have sunk in international waters so far at least three vessels that allegedly transported drugs, killing the people on board, but Venezuela denies that they were traffickers and qualifies the attacks as “illegal”.
Maduro has warned that his country is in a “unin -armed struggle” phase, but if “he was attacked by the American empire”, he would “immediately” the “armed struggle.”
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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