Donald Trump gave Nicolás Maduro an ultimatum, according to Venezuelans exiled in Miami

"The first time Donald Trump He said that all the options are on the table, I was in front of him, in the The United Nationsand I asked him, "he remembered Carla Angola, political badyst EVTV Miami. The The President of the United States said: "The sweetest and the strongest, and you know what I mean". While listening to these words repeated to the Venezuelan community in Miami, Angola claimed that this statement "announced that it would continue to be strengthened".

In the opinion of Venezuelan exile, the Trump's presence at Florida International University (CRF) has proved this reinforcement, a few days from the date on which it will be decided whether humanitarian aid to the Colombian border enters the country or not. "The speech was very important at that time: it is very significant that in Presidents' Day this president decided come to the bunker of Venezuelans in the Doral to tell us that they do not forget nor a day off, "he added.

"The President clarified that the process in Venezuela is irreversible"he said Orian Brito, Venezuelan youth in exilejournalist Cbad 41 at Miami. "The Trump administration has a very strong position: to support not only the The acting president, Juan Guaidó, but the change that began in the National Assembly"

Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua

In the auditorium Ocean Bank Convocation Center of the CRF, an area of ​​1800 square meters in which it sounded mainly the Castilian language, the audience listened to previous speakers, like senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, and John Bolton, National Security Advisor stunned, with a Latin-American custom: he chanted his name.

"When you talk about Miami, you have to talk about a tentacle of Venezuela," he told Infobae René Pedroza, the spokesman of the mayor of the city, Francis Suárez. "Miami is the capital of Latin America," he said of the region that is home to the largest community in Latin America. Venezuelans in the United States, about 100,000 people, in addition to the largest Cuban community, which reaches 1.2 million in Florida.

After the interventions of State Governor Ron de Santis and First Lady Melania Trump, it is the turn of the president who climbed on the podium to the applause of the badistants, many of whom were MAGA hats (Make America great again) or Trump 2020. He spoke about the Venezuelan case and the "decline of socialism", which caused problems flags of Cuba and Nicaragua.

"I think it's part of a line of government that Take Venezuela as an axis to illustrate how harmful governments can be by taking socialism as an excuse to become authoritarian governments, "he said. Zairena Barboza, Venezuelan exile, director of Actualidad Radio 1040AM. "I think that Venezuela will become an example, a mirror in which other countries of Latin America will be reflected."

With less knowledge of international politics but more life experience, a Marriage, Isabel and Mariano, who attended "to support Trump, Trump's policy," said that they no longer expected to: "We are Cubans, we have been here for many years."

The exiled military Antonio Rivero González, General of brigade in Venezuela, ironizó: "Acknowledged is that Donald Trump is not an affection for the socialism". The message of the President, in his opinion, was that "the The support these regimes have been able to obtain from Venezuela's resources is now coming to an end."

The Trump government, he believes, "will make a serious effort to try to eliminate what, thanks to the politics of the San Pablo Forum, it's consolidated in Latin America and that affects the peace, the economy and the stability of the region, and affects the United States from the social point of view, immigration, for example, and the threat, given its relationship with the Islamic terrorism that is positioning itself today in Latin America through the Venezuela.

Brito added that there was another way in which "the tragedy of countries with socialist regimes spread in the region" and that, in the case of Venezuela, the situation has become even more pronounced. lately: "emigration of three million Venezuelans. This has raised concerns not only from the US government but also from other countries overwhelmed by this situation. "

After February 23

For all participants on Saturday 23 February is a key date, even if their expectations are different. "The eyes of the world are fixed in Cúcuta right now"said Pedroza, about the border town of Colombia where humanitarian aid is destined for Venezuela. "The message is clear, the message is sent to the members of Nicolás Maduro's army, it is direct and direct: they let humanitarian aid enter or there will be consequences."

Barboza is hopeful: "All indications are that we will muster all the forces for humanitarian aid to come in. What is going to happen for the moment? I do not know. depends on Maduro and his henchmen. It's cooking minute by minute"On the other hand, Rivero does not do it:" The humanitarian aid will not be facilitated. There is no articulation of the party who can cope with the scheme. If you face it, there will be internal problems, in which will participate the Colombian guerrillas ".

He added: "Forcing humanitarian aid is not the most appropriate way to proceed, the action would be subject to another time, not to the 23. But not very far." The soldier, who has been in the United States for four years, felt that the speech confirmed that on the table is "Plan B, the military option".

Luisalba Morales, economist and educator, member of the Venezuelan Republican Alliance (VARA, a non-profit organization of US citizens and Venezuelan immigrants), would not want: "The expectation is that with the support of the President of the Republic of Venezuela United States Take some of the decisions that are on the table. "But he keeps little illusions:" And if it is that we have to come to the last, the intervention, because that they do it at a time, because humanitarian aid does not reach them. "

Angola noted that beyond the message of the White House, "there is a belief that everything is so weak, so broken, that maybe we, the Venezuelans, are the protagonists of this change, and we do not need international help for that ".

One of the most commented points was that Trump repeated that there was an offer of amnesty for the Venezuelan military, whose obverse would be the possibility of "losing everything". While this is not new to them, since this is part of the Washington DC speech on the subject, they have commented on it as a final message.

"It was an ultimatum"Rivero talked about the sentence and the speech in general." I interpret it as an ultimatum. In terms of intransigence that the regime presents, by not giving power by constitutional means, neither by negotiation nor by agreement, you have to give some time before you act forcibly to try to reverse what has been imposed on Venezuelan society ".

Pedroza, from the Mayor's office in Miami, warned that "these next few weeks will be very stressful". There will be tensions, he repeated, "without doubt, but this way is trying to avoid violence".

Barboza pointed out that the speed with which events occur is in itself a factor. "There are still too many hours to live until the end of December 23. In December, none of us had imagined to participate in it." January 23, the day of democracy in Canada. Venezuela, President Juan Guaidó was sworn in front of Parliament. We never imagined that Venezuela would currently have a coalition of nearly 60 countries to support their quest for freedom. Today, there is a very different opposition. "

"We have seen soldiers turn around this dictatorial government of Nicolás Maduro," said Pedroza. "We saw soldiers kissing those who were demonstrating." This was another topic that was addressed by the participants after listening to Trump's speech: the role of the Venezuelan armed forces in the days to come.

"What is happening in Venezuela is also happening to the families of these members of the army. I think that they realize that the right side of the story is what is happening right now with the legitimate President Juan Guaidó", supplemented the spokesman of Mayor Suarez.

For Brito, the message featured two remarkable moments, one of which was "the message to the Venezuelan army". The White House, he said, urged them to "promote change and rally to the Constitution." The other key moment, badociated with this message, is that "no option is excluded: the United States is providing significant support to the rescue of democracy in Venezuela."

Angola noted that the big question we were asking ourselves is what will happen to the armed forces if Caracas orders that humanitarian aid does not enter. "John Bolton said that they did not think to intervene now because there are Venezuelan military in conversation with the interim government to be able to see how they can be part of the transition without suffering the consequences. "

A position without opposition

Angola and Barboza both stressed that, beyond the political sympathies or antipathies that Trump might provoke, the realization of this speech in Miami indicates that there is a consensus on the tragedy experienced by Venezuelans. "They have spent many years in exile and meetings to understand that they are not fighting against a drug dealer who has enriched and stole the nation's money." , which is blocked, "said Angola.

"Many may not agree with Trump, but I think no one disagrees about it"Barboza pointed out." Since January 10, when Nicolás Maduro became a usurper after being sworn illegally, no one, not even in the United States Congress, protested against the acts that he committed President It's the one of the actions for which President Trump has had no opposition in two years of government. "

The letters, he repeated, have already been distributed. "What came to you, it came to you, they did not save anything, they sought a coalition, they got it, they took it to the UN , all the countries voted in. There is the offer of amnesty, I interviewed a colonel who manifested in uniform, arrived here and the amnesty is in course, the European Union has been activated, the four MEPs have just been expelled. These are the facts"