Conflict in Venezuela: Something does not work well in American diplomacy – 05/02/2019

Something must not work well in American diplomacy, otherwise "the empire" has stopped being what it was. Several sayings and facts show, from the improvised military "uprising," that Juan Guaidó He imagined that he would run Tuesday with the "liberated" Leopoldo Lopez take pictures – from outside – at La Carlota Air Force Base, in what would be the initial note of a string of chain rebellions that would send Cuban exile to Nicolás Maduro and several Chavismo leaders. Disappointed with this failure, the top officials of Donald Trump tried by all means to make believe the world and the Venezuelans that something has happened, or happened, where little and nothing has happened.

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The first to go on stage was nothing less than Mike Pompeo, Trump's secretary of state, his chancellor, just hours after the insurgency failed. In trying to encourage the troops, he says about Maduro: "He had a plane on the runway, he was ready to leave this morningAs far as we know, the Russians told him that he should stay, "he explained, but he went further, claiming that the president was planning to flee to Havana, and when he did not want to leave, he said. he was asked if he had a message for the president, Pompeo simply said, "turn on the plane."

Pompeo, who was director of the CIA, protected his sources, but said the United States had interviewed "dozens and dozens of people on the ground," in addition to other documents. Someone lied to the Chancellor or his sources are not very good. Or, which seems more dramatic for American interests. In the region, Russia's Vladimir Putin has more firepower than Washington in its own backyard.

Failure of Pompeo's operation, who sought to outrage generals and colonels before the abandonment of his commander-in-chief, appeared on the scene, National Security Adviser, John Bolton: perhaps with the same idea of ​​Pompeo, this "hawk" of the Trump administration badured that three key elements of the Chavez regime – the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino; Supreme Court President Mikael Moreno and General of the National Guard Rafael Hernández Dala had alleged in talks with the opposition before the Tuesday morning operation that Nicolás Maduro had to leave power in a peaceful way.

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Bolton stressed that Padrino, Moreno and Hernández Dala "agreed that Maduro must leave" and asked (he had almost prayed for those hours) "to respect their commitments". "Let's hope the Cubans let them do what they should"he said with a stern gesture, referring to the presence of the Havana intelligence services in the Venezuelan armed forces, and that Washington considered Maduro's control of the army to be essential. "Protect the Constitution, remove Maduro and we will remove you from the list of sanctions Stay with Maduro and they will sink with the ship", he almost implored. But none of this has happened. The power of Cuba, it seems, is stronger than the threats and offers of the world's leading power, economically and militarily.

The day seemed lost and Maduro had not fallen and Elliot Abrams, sentenced by the Iran-Contra scandal in Nicaragua and now Trump's envoy for democracy to Venezuela, appeared. "I found that many of them had turned off their cellphones", recognized in an interview with the agency EFE. "I am talking about many people at the highest levels of the Venezuelan government," he said to the question of who did not answer the phone.

"They spoke, talked and talked and when the time came to act, they were not willing to do it," Abrams criticized. "Because? What was the role of the Russians, what was the role of the Cubans? We are now trying to find answers to these questions, but we know that there have been some arrests of intelligence and military officials. ", he added.

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Subsequently, Abrams said that "almost all the high command" was involved in the negotiations and that he "had recognized Juan Guaidó as interim president". "Maduro did not participate in these negotiations and perhaps he discovered it, and that's why they decided to act now," he said. about the date on which the so-called "Operation Libertad" took place, and confused, Abrams said that he did not know if a date was set to "May 1 or May 15".

At the time of Ronald Reagan or Bush, to name only republican president, these desprolijidades did not take place: they say it, but Manuel Antonio Noriega in Panama in 1989 or Maurice Bishop in Granada in 1983. Even less Russians or Cubans to "the empire" in their noses. And much less, some South American generals would be able to disregard the agreement. Unless Woody Allen runs the second part of bananas

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The person responsible for closing the circle was Bolton himself, on Wednesday, when Guaidó was no longer looking for soldiers at the barracks but the support of the street: "The acting president, Guaidó, bravely leads the Venezuelan people in the streets, he hides somewhere in a military bunker, surrounded by his Cuban supervisors and corrupt friends.Guidó shows the courage of a leader; Maduro is nothing more than a cowardly autocrat ", said Bolton on Twitter.

Shortly after, Maduro appeared on radio and television, thus accusing his custom of blaming "the empire" for all the ills that plague Venezuela. And this Thursday, he surrounded himself with hundreds of soldiers to show his power. The leader of Chavez must badume that the United States is no longer what it was. And Trump and his diplomats learn not to underestimate the seriousness of the situation. And even less to Vladimir Putin and Cubans.