Elliott Abrams, quien hasta hace poco se desempeñaba como el encargado especial del Gobierno de Estados Unidos para los asuntos de Venezuela, aseguró este lunes que su país «quería que Maduro se fuera, aún lo queremos fuera». «Pero el presidente Trump tomó la decisión de no usar la fuerza en Venezuela», dijo durante una entrevista con EVTV MIAMI. Full Text -> AlNavio

Courtesy translation -> Elliott Abrams, who until recently served as the United States Government’s special commissioner for Venezuela’s affairs, assured this Monday that his country “wanted Maduro to leave, we still want him out.” “But President Trump made the decision not to use force in Venezuela,” he said during an interview with EVTV MIAMI.

“So I would say my answer to what went wrong is what went wrong is that Nicolas Maduro decided to impose a vicious and brutal regime on the country, and look at the impact on Venezuela.  We believe, as do about five dozen democracies around the world, that this is the correct policy, that we need to support the people of Venezuela in their struggle to restore what they had, which is democracy.  So you will see the continuation of this policy.  As I’ve noted, we imposed sanctions last week; we imposed some additional sanctions this week.  I have no doubt whatsoever that this will continue and there’ll be more pressures imposed via sanctions and also diplomatic activity, which we’re very actively engaged in”. Elliot Abrams. Full Text -> US Department of State