“In the Trump administration, we could not tolerate a nation just 1,400 miles from Florida rolling out the welcome mat for Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and the cartels, in violation of the 21st century Monroe Doctrine. We came to the conclusion that, if left unaddressed, the problem in Venezuela would escalate with dire security consequences for the American people and our hemisphere,” said President Donald Trump’s former Secretary of State and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA), Mike Pompeo.
The ex-director of the CIA elaborates on these remarks in his book Never give in an inch: Fighting for the America that I love, where he revealed plans and pressure actions to weaken and overthrow the national president Nicolás Maduro, including the economic and financial blockade and ignorance of his legitimacy as Head of State. In addition, the United States gave a billion dollars to the extremist opposition linked to Juan Guaidó, according to the book, commented on in a report published on the VTV page.
“For the year 2018, with new elections in Venezuela about to take place, we believed that we had the opportunity to help the Venezuelan people to recover their country from a dictator. By supporting the opposition and putting financial pressure on Maduro, we hoped to right the Venezuelan ship and force its way out. We hoped to make life so miserable for the regime that Maduro and his thugs would have to cut a deal with the opposition. If Maduro wanted to live in a Swiss castle for the rest of his life, we were willing to let him, as long as Venezuela could return to normality,” he detailed.
Pompeo stated that President Trump, John Bolton and his person suggested the military option for Venezuela, as a measure of pressure, however, “in May 2018 the people of Venezuela voted in a presidential election, for which the United States, together with 11 other democracies in the hemisphere, called the Lima Group, pressured Maduro to resign; We exerted pressure.”
The former senior official indicated that in 2018 the North American empire managed to exert the greatest economic pressure against the Venezuelan people.
“The United States faced a difficult decision point over recognizing Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela; which is why on January 23, we saw a relatively unknown 35-year-old opposition leader named Juan Guaidó and thanks to our skilled diplomat, Ambassador Jimmy Story, magic was worked to help align us behind the figure of Guaidó; for the United States is always looking for promising leaders in the “difficult” places like Venezuela, Iraq, Lebanon and Somalia. For this reason, after investigating Guaidó, we decided that we could run with him for the following months, which is why a strong pressure campaign was mounted on the Maduro regime from the United States, the text cites.
In this regard, Pompeo explained that the White House imposed a series of strong sanctions against the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela and confiscated Venezuelan assets and funds abroad, which it still illegally withheld. The goal, according to Pompeo, was to take away the Venezuelan government’s ability to get foreign currency and prevent it from exporting “its main money generators: oil and gold.”
Kidnapping
This is how in the book Pompeo stated that in his eagerness to get out of President Nicolás Maduro, the kidnapping of diplomat Alex Saab was planned, organized and financed, as a new attack on the Venezuelan people.
“For the month of June of the year 2020, I received a call from Elliott Abrams, where he informed me that they had the opportunity to catch the diplomat Alex Saab, who while on a humanitarian aid mission for Venezuela was illegally apprehended in a small island nation in the Atlantic Ocean,” the former official described.
“I called Attorney General Bill Barr and arranged for our ambassador to Cape Verde and the Department of Justice to submit the documents for Saab’s extradition to the United States. Suffice to say, no other nation has the global reach to disrupt an Iranian-Venezuelan plot in real time and convince a small island nation to hold a wanted man. We may never know how much money we kept out of the hands of the Iranians and how much oil we kept from Maduro; Saab, remains in jail in the United States on money laundering charges,” Pompeo admitted.
The former head of the CIA refers in his text that the money “was just a way of giving our support. In April 2019, I visited the Colombian border city of Cúcuta with Colombian President Iván Duque, to see how the United States could improve our efforts to help Venezuelan refugees.”
With these confessions, the United States has exposed the plan to destroy the Bolivarian project and its economic financing plan of Donald Trump to the radical opposition to break the constitutional thread with the intention of destroying the Government.
