The former secretary from Defending from USA, Mark Esperhas revealed in a book that the former president Donald Trump put on the table on February 5, 2020 the possibility that US military forces would “get rid” of the Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro.
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Trump made the offer to opposition leaders Juan Guaido, Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchio and Mauricio Claver-Carone, who met with the US president at the White House.
“What if the US Army went down and got rid of Ripe?”, raised Trumpalways according to waitwhich he points out in his book ‘a sacred oath‘ that “I think he was testing Guaido“.
Guaido then replied that “of course we will always welcome the help of USA” and suggested that the Venezuelans who lived in Colombia “want to recover their country for themselves”. wait then asked if the Venezuelans would be willing to “organize, train and fight” because “the US Army he has experience training foreign forces.” “Yes, he would be,” replied Guaidoalthough wait considers that “he did not sound very sure”.
The attendees considered that the direct military invasion of USA it was preferable because an invasion from Colombia “would be complicated.” “As I sarcastically told the President before the meeting, I am sure that the opposition Venezuelan ‘he would fight until the last American’ if we offered it to him,” he said. wait.
“Nevertheless, Guaido Y Claver-Carone they managed a special mercenary operation similar to the assassination of the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, killed in an attack by former Colombian soldiers.
Trump despised Guaido because they went to ask “that soldiers of USA invade your country while Ripe was fighting against the invasion”, in reference to what is known as Operation Gideon, has pointed out wait. “That is why Trump always thought that Guaido he was ‘weak’, unable to replace President Maduro, whom he saw as ‘strong’.
Guaido, Borges and Vecchio argued that “it would be easier and faster if USA did it for us.”wait asked again: ‘If some of those Venezuelans can be trained and equipped by USA, would you be willing to fight?’ He never had a clear answer: ‘they told me it was very complicated and would take a long time,’ “he said. wait.
The former Secretary of Defense has revealed another meeting held on June 9, 2020 with the White House National Security Adviser, Robert O’Brienwho proposed an air or amphibious attack on the José Antonio Anzoátegui Refining Complex to paralyze the oil economy and, with the chaos and popular suffering, overthrow Ripe and impose on Juan Guaido as head of government.
These plans were finally embodied in the Operation Gideonin which two former members of the us special forces They led almost 60 Venezuelan dissidents who entered the country in boats with the intention of arresting and overthrowing Ripe.
“The Murder of President Maduro was discussed at the White House in the presence of Guaido, Borges and Vecchio. Mauricio Claver-Carone was part of the plan. A plan very similar to the assassination of the president of Haiti with Colombian mercenaries. In Venezuela it failed,” highlighted the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, in a thread on Twitter commenting on extracts from Esper’s book.
