Colombian Ambassador to US Admits He Tried
to Overthrow
Venezuela's Maduro
By
teleSUR
December 17, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Last month, an audio
was made public in which Ambassador
Francisco Santos confessed to the
Colombian Foreign Minister that he had
to 'invent' things to keep Venezuela in
the U.S.' mind.
The Colombian Ambassador to the United
States, Francisco Santos, said on Monday
that he 'underestimated' the Venezuelan
President, Nicolas Maduro, and his
ability to stay in power, and
acknowledged that they miscalculated his
departure from the government.
While at the Colombian Embassy in
Washington,, among a small group of
journalists, Santos said that "we
underestimated the ability of Maduro to stay
in power and his ability protect their
environment, which is Caracas, and the rest
of the country."
The
former vice president of Colombia
(2002-2010) excused himself by attributing
the "dollarization" to the fact that
in Venezuela there are things that according
to Santos, a year ago were not in the
nation.
He
said that one of his roles as Ambassador to
Washington was to keep Venezuela in an
important place on the foreign agenda in the
United States; however he acknowledged that
although "the sanctions are fulfilling their
role, they have not yet achieved the
breaking point, and that's what you keep
looking for. "
Last month, a conversation between Francisco
Santos and Foreign Minister Claudia Blum was
made public in a local newspaper in
Colombia, where the ambassador criticizes
the Government of President Donald Trump and
Iván Duque, and makes a strong statement
about the Venezuelan political situation.
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In
the audio, Santos revealed that the
situation in Venezuela was "a bit halted",
but that he had prepared to reactivate it by
inducing European parliamentarians to
take an interest in the border activity to
keep the idea of the 'crisis' in their
minds. In addition, he confessed to Blum:
"It is my turn to invent things so that they
have Venezuela in the top of mind (in the
head). That is the task with which I am with
Venezuela."
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza
confirmed, after hearing the audio, the
complicity of interference with the affairs
of Venezuela.
Santos also reiterated his support for Juan
Guaidó , claiming that it is an advance that
the Venezuelan opponent has the recognition
of 60 countries.
Guaidó, in an interview published Monday in
the newspaper El País, said he did not
accept a breakdown of the opposition,
despite the fact that he himself states that
"31 deputies are out, one is in prison and
30 in exile", and that one or another
"spectrum of the opposition" is in at an
"alleged dialogue table".
He
acknowledged that he did not have enough
support from the Venezuelan Armed Forces,
and that although he had the support of an
important group at the time, "some backed
out." Hence, he stressed: "You have to
analyze the messages to the armed forces,
you have to improve them, not that they are
worthless, but that you have to look for
alternatives."
This article was originally published by "teleSur"
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