John Bolton's message to Nicolás Maduro with a letter from Bob Dylan

National Counselor at the White House for Security, John Bolton, quoted the American musician Bob Dylan to discuss the current situation with the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelan journalist Carla Angola interviewed Donald Trump's government adviser and asked if she had one. "final message" for the Chavez regime. Bolton's answer was then a statement addressed directly to Maduro: "Recognize that around you the waters rose (…) and that you had better start swimming now or you will sink like a stone because times are changing in Venezuela".

The quote corresponds to a fragment of the song "The Times are a Changing", recorded in 1963 by the renowned artist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

John Bolton is one of the most severe voices of the US government in his position against the Maduro regime in Venezuela. With communications and repeated messages on his Twitter account, the leader has come to define Chavez as "a tyrant" who "needs a long retreat" far from Caracas.

On February 13, Bolton questioned the South American president on the ban on humanitarian aid and added that the United States "will not forget" the countries and companies that do business with Venezuela's crude oil.

Bolton also threatened retaliation "to bankers, brokers, traders (stock market), intermediaries and other companies"What"to trade in gold, Venezuelan oil or other raw materials"Who, in his opinion, uses Maduro to stay in power.

The Trump government recognizes as legitimate president of Venezuela the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself acting president of Venezuela on January 23 by invoking two articles of the Venezuelan Constitution.