The United States has a hawk for Venezuela | Enc …

One of the most controversial personalities of North American foreign policy has reappeared, as have chosen the United States to intervene in the Venezuelan situation. State Secretary Mike Pompeo entrusted Elliott Abrams with the role of emissary responsible for "restoring democracy" in the Caribbean nation.

In making this announcement, Pompeo said that "there are many dimensions to help Venezuelans establish democracy and we will be responsible for leading this effort." Abrams defined the situation in Venezuela as "deep, complex and dangerous".

Pompeo said that Abrams would accompany him to New York at the emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to which the United States had asked to discuss the Venezuelan crisis and to talk to him. try to get the body to recognize Juan Guaidó as president. "After that, I can not tell you where (his mission) will take him, I would not be surprised if he ended up traveling in the region," added the US diplomat.

Abrams was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in 1981. He arrived at this post after Reagan's first choice, the hawk Ernest Lefever, who did not want to go back. did not surpbad the Senate filter. This was Patricia Derian's position in Jimmy Carter's time, and with Abrams, the dictatorships of the Southern Cone returned to maintain good relations with Washington. He ran into human rights organizations, who accused him of concealing the atrocities committed in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, a country in which the United States fanned the anti-stigmatizing leader.

In 1986, when he was already Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, he was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal: the illegal sale of weapons in Tehran to fund counter-guerrilla warfare, which destabilized the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. In 1991, he was convicted of minor offenses related to the illegal retention of information in Congress while investigating the secret funding of the opposites. He was sentenced to community service and two-year probation, but was granted pardon by a presidential pardon in 1992.

It reappeared in 2001 when George W. Bush appointed him special badistant to the president and director of democracy, human rights and international operations at the National Security Council. This nomination has been criticized for its past, but has not prevented it from giving advice on the Middle East. Now he returns to the scene on a hot stage.