Guaidó respondió entonces que «por supuesto nosotros siempre daremos la bienvenida a la ayuda de Estados Unidos» y planteó que los venezolanos que vivían en Colombia «quieren recuperar su país por ellos mismos». Esper planteó entonces si los venezolanos estarían dispuestos a «organizarse, formarse y combatir» porque «el Ejército estadounidense tiene experiencia en formar a fuerzas extranjeras». «Sí, lo estaría», respondió Guaidó, aunque Esper considera que «no sonó muy seguro». Texto Completo -> ElNacional

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Authoritarian and populist presidents in Latin America have been encouraged by a weakening of democratic values in the US, according to a leading human rights chief, citing the refusal of Republican voters to accept Donald Trump’s election defeat. José Miguel Vivanco, who is stepping down as head of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division after 28 years, said the Trump phenomenon “has provided ammunition and inspiration for the wrong side in Latin America”. By Michael Stott. Full Text -> FinancialTimes

 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.

There has been speculation over the timing of the executive order and the possibility of Trump’s daughter Ivanka running for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida. The former senior White House adviser is set to relocate to Florida where she and her husband, Jared Kushner — also a former senior adviser — have leased a condominium in a luxury building in South Florida. They also spent $32 million on a waterfront lot on the exclusive Indian Creek Island a few miles away from the condominium. By Carmen Sesin. Full Text-> NBCNews

With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President Donald Trump shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation Tuesday night, rewarding Venezuelan exiles who have been among his most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration.  Trump signed an executive order deferring for 18 months the removal of more than 145,000 Venezuelans who were at risk of being sent back to their crisis-wracked homeland. He cited the “deteriorative condition” within Venezuela that constitutes a national security threat as the basis for his decision. Full Text -> France24

In the recent US presidential election, one key swing state where Donald Trump performed better than he did four years ago was Florida – especially in its most heavily Hispanic sections. How did he do it, and how can President-elect Joe Biden and the Democratic Party recover this crucial voter base? By Ricardo Hausman and José Morales-Ardilla. Full Text-> Project-Syndicate

Nearly 50 percent of Latino voters in Florida who are not Cuban or Puerto Rican voted for Trump. Here’s what helped the Republicans in 2020. By Carmen Sesin. Full Text -> NBCNews

That may be a reason, but as a Latino living in the Venezuelan/Colombian-American area of Doral, Fla., I can tell you that Mr. Trump’s campaign was able to, on one hand, sell the idea that a Joe Biden administration would be a Trojan horse for socialism. Many Venezuelan-Americans, who fled the failed socialism in Venezuela, are terrified with the prospect of living in that situation again. Full Text-> WSJ

Political refugees from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela say they know the horrors of socialism, and they voted for Trump to prevent it from taking over America. By Wendy Rhodes. Full Text -> ThePalmBeachPost

In a carefully drafted statement on Saturday afternoon, Guaidó congratulated Biden and Harris and thanked Trump for “his firmness and determination in confronting the Maduro dictatorship and his efforts to help our people living today in a humanitarian emergency.” He then noted that “the cause of the cause for freedom and democracy in Venezuela has bipartisan support in the United States.” By Nora Gámez Torres and Jacqueline Charles. Full Text -> MiamiHerald