According to sources from the team of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, who consulted EFE, “Venezuela is a problem because it is sending its criminals to the United States and generates national security concerns,” which has led them to shape a plan to force the end of more than two decades of chavismo
The team of the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, is shaping a plan to force an end to more than two decades of Chavismo in Venezuela, starting with the possible termination of the license to the American oil company Chevron, which would affect the delicate cohesion of the regime, and a negotiated exit of Nicolás Maduro into exile “in less time than we think,” according to sources of the incoming president.
“We wouldn’t mind in the least seeing that Maduro shares a neighborhood with (Bachar al) Assad in Moscow,” a source on Trump’s foreign policy team told Axios this weekend, referring to the Syrian leader’s departure into exile after the collapse of the Army loyal to the regime after more than 13 years of civil war.
According to sources in Trump’s team, consulted EFE«Venezuela is a problem because it is sending its criminals to the United States and generates national security concerns. Maduro will end up leaving in less time than we think,” something that would be achieved without US military intervention.
Other sources familiar with the internal debates in Trump’s new team for Latin America, led by the nominee for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, believe that “the United States has open channels of communication” with Chavismo and several levers to force the departure of Ripe. “If in a few weeks you begin to see signs of greater isolation from the regime, prepare yourselves,” they warn.
At his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, Rubio opened the possibility of ending the exemption that allows Chevron to operate in Venezuelaa step that for the Venezuelan opposition would be a blow “that would break the seams of Chavismo, making it clear that there is no possible future.”
“We have these licenses where companies like Chevron are providing billions of dollars to the regime, while the regime has not kept any of the promises it made. All of this must be re-examined,” explained Rubio, who may possibly take office at the State Department this Monday, January 20.
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Other key mediators in Trump’s strategy on Venezuela will be Christopher Landau, Rubio’s number two; Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, whom Trump appointed as envoy for Latin American affairs.
All of them have held fluid conversations with the one considered by Washington to be the winner of last July’s elections, Edmundo González Urrutia, and with his team, as well as with the opposition leader María Corina Machado.
According to sources close to González Urrutia, who is in Washington to attend Trump’s inauguration this Monday, the key is to make it clear that the Maduro government is in practice “a drug trafficking organization” and a danger to the national security of the United States. United by their ties with Iran or Russia.
Behind the scenes, work is underway on a major reconstruction plan for Venezuela that could attract investments to reactivate the economy after decades of stagnation.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content is being published taking into consideration the threats and limits that have consequently been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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