The United States insist that "it would be irresponsible to exclude the use of military force" in Venezuela

The United States is following all events in Venezuela closely. After the brutal crackdown last Saturday against the opposition seeking humanitarian aid from various border crossings, the Donald Trump government imposed sanctions on Chavez officials and asked Nicolás Maduro's regime to double deliveries of medicines and food aid.

During a teleconference in which he participated Infobae, a senior US official pointed out that, although the White House maintains diplomatic channels to force the departure of the dictator Chavis, "It would be irresponsible to exclude the use of military force" in Venezuela.

"That's why President Trump made it clear that all options would remain on the table", said the US official in Bogotá, where he traveled with the delegation of the vice president Mike Pence attend the summit of the Lima group.

"We obviously respect the position of the Lima group and are important allies for us, especially through the diplomatic channel. But the United States is not part of the Lima group, we are observers. And on the issues of use of military force it's clearly a decision of the president and the US government. These are two different things, "he added.

The acting president of Venezuela participated in this summit, Juan Guaidó, who went on Friday afternoon to Colombia to attend the show "Venezuela Aid Live" and collaborate in the delivery of humanitarian aid Saturday. His return to Caracas raises a lot of uncertainty because the Chavista court prevented him from leaving the country after being proclaimed interim president. Maduro himself said in the last hours that on his return to the country, Guaidó must face justice.

The US official insisted in his message to the Bolivarian dictator: "Any damage to Guaidó would have serious consequences, which would be the worst decision, perhaps one of Maduro's last decisions."

He also discussed the various actions undertaken by the Trump government since he recognized Guaidó as acting president on January 23, and said that In the coming days, there will be new sanctions against Maduro's environment.

The US official said the diplomacy and sanctions mechanisms put in place so far were "successful" and had "a significant impact on Maduro's and his staff's financial networks, as well as on the way they are moving the funds to them and their parents around the world.

"We have increased the financial persecution with regard to the money of these characters abroad. They can not continue living under a double standard, while they generate misery for the Venezuelan people ". He also pointed out that many senior officers and officials close to Maduro they have their families living abroad, in cities such as Paris, Madrid and Miami, among others.

"We want to make sure that they will not be able to continue to profit from the suffering of the Venezuelan people"he badured.

However, he recalled that the Trump administration was willing to "Eliminate the Sanctions" for Soldiers Leaving Maduro"This is not a battle, not a revenge, it's a matter of allowing this people to receive the help it so badly needs, Venezuela has no reason to To be in a situation of misery. "

On a possible dialogue with Chavez, the senior US official reiterated that Washington was open to any conversation in which he is determined "the how, when and where""This is the only conversation we will have with these people, they have shown that any other conversation will not bear fruit."

"They made fun of the world." These jeers were over. any conversation that there is is strictly about the departure of Maduro ", he added.

After the violent weekend crackdown on volunteers trying to get into humanitarian aid, the official said that US to double food and medicine shipmentsand recalled that Vice President Pence announced Monday in Bogota that Washington would devote an additional $ 56 million to help the Venezuelan people. "There will be more action in favor of humanitarian aid and we will continue our efforts to help the Venezuelan people."

Despite the brutal crackdown by the security forces, which has prevented the advance of humanitarian aid, the US leader has badured that within the regime "there was an institutional break""Maduro had to go to paramilitary groups, illegal, to collective to repress the population. The high commanders hid, they did not want to expose themselves, they had to go to groups of criminals to intimidate them and provoke the violence. "

Although the dictatorship considered a triumph what happened Saturday, Maduro is increasingly isolated and weakened. The revenues of the oil company PDVSA and the military leadership are its two main pillars to stay in power. The first, however, was already blocked by the United States of sanctions imposed on the state company. A real headache because it was their main source of funding. The other pillar, on the other hand, is gradually starting to turn its back on the dictator who, in recent hours, has shown "attitudes of despair" by holding Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos and his team from Univision at Miraflores Palace because he did not like the interview issues. This Tuesday, a Telemundo journalist was also kidnapped for a few hours. "He wants to show some kind of power with these games that he did with Jorge Ramos, he wants to show that he can keep it in an isolated room. This is a desperate measure of dictators. "

In this context, the US official has repeated since Bogota that the United States was convinced that countries would continue to be added to support Guaidó in his efforts to restore the democratic order in Venezuela. For nations that claim to be neutral, he warned: "They will have to choose between tyranny and democracy". Anyway, "Maduro is in a dead end"he concluded.