Demanding an ouster and supporting a coup didn’t work in Venezuela, so the Trump Administration is now trying to negotiate the ouster of Venezuela’s President Maduro in secret meetings. Former Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell held such a meeting in Mexico City.
The goal was to get Maduro to leave voluntarily, but are offering conflicting accounts on how that is going. No deal has been made so far.
This is just the latest track for the administration, with President Trump said to be increasingly frustrated at his failure to oust Maduro. Maduro’s allies are reportedly interested in seeing how the US election works out.
Grenell’s secret meeting was apparently done separately, and not coordinated with the US State Department, where Elliott Abrams is the special envoy for a policy of regime change.
As though anyone is willing to seriously negotiate anything with any regime that is in power in the Imperialist States of Amerikastan.
The important take away here is Pompeo and the neocons were cut out of the loop…
Trump is beginning to wake up to the fact they’re agenda is other than the best interests of his administration – or the Nation’s for that matter.
Better late than never.
And yet he still wants regime change. I don’t consider that waking up. Who he uses to achieve that goal is irrelevant.
Neocons Pompeo and Abrams are instrumental in the administration’s Venezuela policy. The meeting was not coordinated with the State Dept because is was a clandestine meeting- they didn’t want what was discussed to come to light.
We’re trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government because they elected a socialist. Crippling sanctions, mobilization of naval vessels and aircraft, accusations of narco-trafficing, attempted coups, and Elliot Abrams – a man instrumental to the Iran Contra affair and who lied to Congress, including covering up atrocities like the El Mozote massacre – working in the shadows.
Make no mistake. We’re messing with them because the western banks and energy companies want back in.