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It’s no secret in Washington that the Trump administration is the most inexperienced and inept in foreign policy in recent memory, but what CIA Director Mike Pompeo said a few days ago about Venezuela is incredibly stupid even by Trump government standards.
When asked about the Venezuelan crisis at the July 20 Aspen Security Forum, Pompeo started out — wisely — by obliquely acknowledging past CIA interventions in Latin America, saying with a smile that “I’m always very careful when we talk about South and Central America and the CIA. There are a lot of stories. So I want to be very careful with what I say.”
But then, inexplicably, he did exactly the opposite, giving Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his corruption-ridden regime the greatest propaganda ammunition they could possibly hope for.
Pompeo told the audience that he was working hard to restore democracy in Venezuela, and added that “I was just down in Mexico City and Bogotá a week before last, talking about this very issue, trying to help them understand the things they might do, so that they can get a better outcome for their part of the world and our part of the world.”
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Etiquetas: Maduro, Mike Pompeo, Trump, Venezuela
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