Maduro opponents boost military rhetoric in Venezuela crisis
CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) Opposition leader Juan Guaido has called on the international community to consider all options to resolve Venezuelas crisis, a dramatic escalation in rhetoric that echoes comments from the Trump administration hinting at potential U.S. military involvement.
Guaidos comments late Saturday came after a tumultuous day that saw President Nicolas Maduros forces fire tear gas and buckshot on activists trying to deliver humanitarian aid in violent clashes that left two people dead and some 300 injured.
For weeks, the U.S. and regional allies had been amassing emergency food and medical kits on Venezuelas borders in anticipation of carrying out a humanitarian avalanche by land and sea to undermine Maduros rule.
With activists failing to penetrate government blockades and deliver the aid, Guaido announced late Saturday that he would escalate his appeal to the international community beginning with a meeting Monday in Colombias capital with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of an emergency summit of leaders of the so-called Lima Group to discuss Venezuelas crisis.
He said he would urge the international community to keep all options open in the fight to restore Venezuelas democracy, using identical language to that of President Donald Trump, who in his public statements has repeatedly refused to rule out force and reportedly even secretly pressed aides as early as 2017 about the possibility of a military incursion.
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So whose son or daughter is supposed to die for you?