Top members of President Donald Trump’s administration welcomed an uprising against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, but the socialist leader’s supporters condemned it.
Nations around the world have begun responding to an attempted coup in Venezuela, where a political crisis involving competing international interests has turned violent.
The United StatesWhite House national security adviser John Bolton, one of Maduro's most outspoken critics, issued a series of Twitter statements calling on the Venezuelan leader to step down and for troops to support Guaidó. He then delivered a press conference in which he said the U.S. was"providing support in a variety of respects" and claimed three top Maduro officials agreed to defect, though none of them indicated as such on Tuesday.
Bolivian President Evo Morales posted a number of tweets accusing the U.S. of attempting"to provoke violence and death in #Venezuela." He added:"We strongly condemn the attempted coup d'état in #Venezuela, on the part of the right, which is submissive to foreign interests." "We call the military and the people of #Venezuela to place themselves on the right side of history, rejecting Maduro's dictatorship and usurpation; uniting in search of freedom, democracy and institutional reconstruction, headed by [the Venezuelan National Assembly] and the President [Juan Guaidó]," Colombian President Iván Duque tweeted.
RussiaRussian President Vladimir Putin, one of Maduro's major foreign backers, met Tuesday with his Security Council amid reports of growing unrest in Caracas. Though Russian military personnel have been sent to Venezuela in recent weeks, they were officially there only to fulfill"military-technical cooperation" and Moscow's embassy in Caracas suggested they would not intervene in the events transpiring on the streets near La Carlota.
In a statement, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson noted"that chaos cannot be a solution to political differences in Venezuela in any way" and the two sides should instead"establish dialogue and create the necessary mechanisms for solving the problems of the people by the forces committed to the development and welfare of the country under the direction of the Venezuelan government.
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