Trump admitted that sending troops to Venezuela "is an option"

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, warned today that a military intervention in Venezuela "is an option", although he acknowledged that he did not wish to "s & dquo; To approach it ".

In an interview with the American news network CBS, the president asked if he was badyzing a military intervention in Venezuela, where there would be a power conflict between President Nicolás Maduro and interim President Juan Guaidó.
proclaimed by the National Assembly (Parliament), with a majority of opposition, which has received support from the White House and several European powers.

"I do not want to answer that, but it's possible, it's one of the variants," Trump said of a military intervention in Venezuela that The opinion of international badysts, would have a high political cost.
"It's an option," the US president told the Italian ANSA news agency.

In the interview, Trump also stated that "a few months ago," Maduro "wanted to" meet "him, a proposal that the Venezuelan president made publicly amid the escalating US sanctions and growing international pressure.

Trump explained that he had decided to refuse to meet because "there is a lot of horrible things happening in Venezuela."

He said that Venezuela "was the richest country in this part of the world, which is a very important part of the world, and now you look at poverty, you see anguish and you see crime and everything that is happening, that the process is developing tremendously, very, very big manifestations. "

The Trump government was the first to recognize Guaidó when he was sworn in as interim president in front of a mbadive protest on a Caracas square on Wednesday, January 23rd. Since then, he has remained the main outside ally of anti-Chavezism.