Bolton reiterates 'all options' open to Trump in Venezuela, warns Russia against meddling
By Anne Gearan and Anne Gearan White House reporter Email Bio Follow Karen DeYoung Karen DeYoung Associate editor and senior national security correspondent Email Bio Follow April 30 at 4:10 PM President Trump is watching political developments in Venezuela “minute by minute,” White House national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday, as he put unusual public pressure on individual Venezuela government officials to renounce President Nicolás Maduro and embrace the political opposition.
In an apparent attempt to divide Maduro’s government, Bolton said that senior officials, including Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, had been in secret talks with opposition leader Juan Guaidó, and called on them to “make good on their commitments” to help oust Maduro. Guaidó appeared in a video early Tuesday flanked by some military figures, leading to optimism within the Trump administration that it has bet correctly that the powerful Cuban-backed military would eventually turn against Maduro and policies that are bankrupting the once-rich country.
Pardino said the opposition was being manipulated by “imperialists intent on overthrowing a legitimate government,” and he said Guaidó and his backers “will be held responsible for any violence.” Elliott Abrams, the administration’s special envoy for Venezuela, told reporters Tuesday that the United States expected Padrino, along with the head of the Maduro-appointed Supreme Court and the head of the national guard, to declare their support for the Venezuelan constitution, if not necessarily for Guaidó himself.
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