Vice President Mike Pompeo is preparing to deliver a speech this week at the State Department, during which he will announce a package of “incentives” for Venezuelan military personnel, particularly generals, trying to lure them into backing opposition leader Juan Guaido after last week’s failed coup.
The Trump Administration is also preparing to lift all sanctions against Gen.
Manuel Cristopher Figuera, following news that the general has switched
sides and is now backing the regime change the US wants.
The administration is keen to get the Venezuelan military to change
sides en masse, and is also hoping to get judges behind the regime
change. But whereas the US is offering “incentives” to the military
officers, officials are just threatening to sanction judges who don’t
play ball.
Just how successful this very public recruitment will be is anyone’s
guess. So far, however, the US believes that the regime change is
inevitable, and potentially imminent, which was why they believed last
week’s coup was going to work out.
But we’re not trying to arrange a coup. Nope.
If the taxpayers have to send money to Venezuelans, dont we get to pick who gets it ?
Hey, work for us, the money is great! (And it would be so sad if anything unfortunate were to happen to your beautiful, oil-rich country, like bombing and an invasion).
Bribery- very christian of him.
Reminds me of how the Devil took Jesus up to a high place and showed him all the great kingdoms in the world and offered it all, the wealth, the power, to Jesus if he Jesus would only change his allegence. The Devil hasn’t changed much and is alive and well in the government of the US.