Pompeo: "The strategy to overthrow Maduro is already underway and is working"

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In an interview with Caracol, the US secretary of state considered that the "project" will give "a result": "Maduro will leave and Venezuela will have free elections."

 

The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said in an interview that his "mission" is "to get (Nicolás) Maduro to leave" and to have elections in Venezuela.

"We are in this project that will give a result: Maduro will leave and the people of Venezuela will have free and fair elections," he said in an interview published by Caracol.

Pompeo participated last Monday in the III Hemispheric Summit against Terrorism, which was held in Bogotá, and which was attended by Venezuelan opposition deputy Juan Guaidó.

"Get Maduro to leave"
The US secretary of state said that his Government, which does not recognize Maduro as president of Venezuela, is in talks with "all of South America, Central America, European countries and others around the world", in order to join efforts to depose the Venezuelan president.

In this regard, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza recently reported on a document distributed by US embassies. in the world with the purpose of coercing their governments to support a possible transitional government in Venezuela, through the National Assembly, with an opposition majority.

"The purpose of the mission we have together is to get Maduro to leave," Pompeo said, adding that he had met with Guaido, who told him about the "terrorist threat to the citizens of his country."

The President of Colombia, Iván Duque, with the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and the Venezuelan opposition deputy Juan Guaidó, in Bogotá, Colombia, on January 20, 2020.

 

At the Summit against Terrorism, both Colombian President Iván Duque and Pompeo agreed that Caracas financed and housed terrorist groups in its territory.

"The strategy"
When asked about the strategy, considered a "failure" that his country would be applying to depose the Venezuelan president, the head of US diplomacy said it was underway.

"You know, what I hear is that the strategy is working," he said.

Pompeo ratified that his country has put "harsh sanctions on the regime making it harder for them to harm the Venezuelan people."

For its part, the Venezuelan Government has presented figures to demonstrate that punitive measures are not only against senior officials, but have affected the po[CENSORED]tion. Maduro recently claimed that the US blockade against Venezuela it has generated losses in the order of 40,000 million dollars.

Finally, Pompeo said that Washington will achieve "free and fair presidential elections," despite Maduro's six-year term culminating in 2025, according to the Constitution of that country.

Abuse of allusions to 'democracy'
These statements by Pompeo show that the American country "has never abandoned the tactic of interference in the affairs of sovereign countries and the policy of regime change," estimates the official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova.

In his opinion, the US it abuses allusions to 'democracy' and 'democratic organization' in other countries as a tool to foster in them a "convenient domestic political situation in Washington."