John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to former United States President Donald Trump; He confessed this Tuesday to having organized coups in other countries, as well as accepting that the North American nation planned coups in Venezuela.
The statements were made by Bolton in an interview with CNNafter the journalist pointed out that “one does not have to be brilliant to carry out a coup.”
Before this, Bolton expressed: «I do not agree with that idea. As someone who has helped plan coups. Not here (USA) but you know, in other places. It requires a lot of work.”
In this sense, he asserted that he would not give details about his participation in the coup d’états, however; When asked about any successful coup plans, Bolton referred to Venezuela.
«I wrote about Venezuela in a book, but it turned out not to be successful. Not that we (the US) had much to do with it, but I saw what it takes for an opposition to try to unseat an illegally elected president and they failed,” the former US adviser said.
In 2019, Bolton publicly supported the right-winger Juan Guaido for the military to back his effort to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro.
Following these statements, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, He manifested himself on social networks, with some excerpts from the interview, in which he refers that Bolton confessed himself as “an expert in coups d’états” to defend Trump from the events recorded in January 2021 in the so-called Assault on Capitol.
«Bolton proclaims himself to the world as an expert on coups outside the US, to defend Trump in his failed coup within the US: “Coups take a lot of work”, says the criminal. For this reason, he also failed with his local agents in Venezuela », he wrote on the social network Twitter.
It is worth remembering that the Commission of the House of Representatives that investigates the storming the capitol – which occurred in January of last year – blamed the then president of the United States (USA), Donald Trump; of a “Coup attempt”.
Russia asks to investigate Bolton
Following the former Security Advisor’s statements to CNN, the Russian Foreign Ministry urged international organizations to investigate Bolton’s participation in the organization of coups.
“I do not remember that a person who held such high positions and was directly responsible for Washington’s international policy has spoken so openly about his participation in planning coups in other countries,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zajarova. quoted by Latin Press.
“They are a completely new revelation for a representative of American foreign policy and require an investigation,” he added.
In that sense, he added that this position assumed by the former presidential adviser is far from the supposed support that the “democratic forces” were offered from the White House, as well as the contribution to the development of democracy and pluralism that was developing in other nations.
