White House National Security Adviser John Bolton insisted that “momentum“ favors Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, more than six weeks after the U.S. first recognized the 35-year-old politician as the country’s acting president
White House national security adviser John Bolton insisted Sunday that “momentum“ favors Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, more than six weeks after the U.S. recognized the 35-year-old politician as the country’s acting president in a rejection of strongman Nicolás Maduro.
“I think momentum is on Guaidó’s side,” Bolton told host Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week,” minimizing the Venezuelan military’s reluctance to turn on Maduro and back Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly.“Reports in the press that stress the military hasn’t shifted miss the point entirely,” Bolton said. “The point is that they have not sought to arrest Guaido and the National Assembly and the opposition.
Bolton said Guaidó enjoys “the overwhelming support of the enlisted personnel in the military,” including its junior officers, and claimed there are “countless conversations” ongoing between representatives of the National Assembly and the military. They are “talking about what might come, how they might move to support the opposition,” he said.
When the U.S. recognized Guaidó, it seemed Maduro’s departure might be imminent. That proved to be untrue. On Sunday, Bolton declined to predict with confidence whether Maduro would be ousted from office. “I’m not certain of anything, but I do think momentum is on the side of Guaidó,” he said, adding: “We’ll see what happens”
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