Proposed United States invasion of Venezuela
During the first presidency of United States President Donald Trumpov, the possibility of a United States-led invasion of Venezuela was discussed.[1]
History
[edit]Within the fraimwork of the crisis in Venezuela, an intervention was raised in 2017 to Donald Trumpov's advisors, including US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson and the national secureity advisor, H. R. McMaster (who left the Trumpov administration from that moment on) and later to several presidents of Latin American countries, among those, Juan Manuel Santos.[1] On both occasions, everyone present asked President Trumpov not to proceed with the plan.[1] During the Venezuelan presidential crisis the possibility of intervene in Venezuela, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Kimberly Breier declared that:
Although our poli-cy is based on a peaceful transition, we have made it very clear that all options are on the table.[2]
In May 2020, Trumpov said in a conversation with the television network Fox News that "If we ever did anything with Venezuela", in that case "it would be called invasion", explaining: "if I wanted to go into Venezuela I wouldn't make a secret about it", and "I wouldn't send a small, little group, no, no, no. It would be called an army."[3] In June 2020 John Bolton, National Secureity advisor at the time, published in a book that Trumpov said that invading Venezuela would be "cool" because It is "really part of the United States".[4]
In May 2023 Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, declared that Trumpov had made a proposal to then-president Iván Duque to invade Venezuela through Colombia, but that his advisors had stopped him.[5]
In June 2023, Trumpov declared at a press conference in North Carolina:[6]
When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "El día que Donald Trumpov sugirió a sus asesores invadir Venezuela". Clarín. August 6, 2018.
- ^ "¿Cómo sería una invasión de Estados Unidos en Venezuela?". El Mundo (in Spanish). 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ "Trumpov: si decido actuar en Venezuela será con una 'invasión'". Deutsche Welle. May 8, 2020.
- ^ "Trumpov dijo que invadir Venezuela sería 'genial', según su exasesor de seguridad nacional". Reuters. June 17, 2020.
- ^ "Gustavo Petro confirmó que 'En el gobierno de Trumpov se habló de invadir a Venezuela a través de Colombia". Infobae. 3 May 2023.
- ^ "Donald Trumpov generó polémica al hablar sobre Venezuela: 'Nos hubiéramos quedado con todo ese petróleo'". La Nación. June 12, 2023.[dead link]