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CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday acknowledged errors made in attempting to stir a military uprising, and did not discard a U.S. military option in Venezuela alongside domestic forces saying he would take any such offer from Washington to a vote in the countrys National Assembly.
After a dramatic week that saw a clandestine plan to oust President Nicolás Maduro fall apart on Tuesday, Guaidó conceded that the opposition had miscalculated its support within the military.
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Guaidó suggested that he expected Maduro to step down amid a groundswell of defectors within the military. Instead, Guaidós call for the rank and file and senior brass to abandon Maduro did not produce mass defections. Maduros security forces then quelled street protests and left Guaidós U.S.-backed opposition on its heels.
Maybe because we still need more soldiers, and maybe we need more officials of the regime to be willing to support it, to back the constitution, Guaidó said. I think the variables are obvious at this point.
Guaidó the head of the National Assembly who in January declared Maduro a usurper and claimed the legitimate mantle of national leadership did not back unilateral U.S. military intervention. He made clear that any American military support must be alongside Venezuelan forces who have turned against Maduro, but gave no further specifics on what would be acceptable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/need-more-soldiers-venezuelas-guaido-says-opposition-overestimated-military-support-before-failed-uprising/2019/05/04/72561cb8-6e8b-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html?utm_term=.9e5911922228&wpisrc=al_news__alert-world--alert-national&wpmk=1
No Americans should die for you. So sorry.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)The stupid runs deep!
Yep ...
There are roughly 32 million Venezuelans, spread across a country larger than Texas and Oklahoma combined, ranging from the Caribbean to the Andes, including a half dozen large cities ranging from one million to six million in population, two of which - Caracas and Maracaibo - each of which is larger than any city in the US except New York itself...
I'm thinking the only people who can build a better Venezuela are the Venezuelans...
At the moment, there is nothing in Venezuela worth the life or limb of one American.