AP Interview: Maduro reveals secret meetings with US envoy

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Source: Associated Press

AP Interview: Maduro reveals secret meetings with US envoy

By IAN PHILLIPS and JOSHUA GOODMAN
February 14, 2019

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro said in an AP interview Thursday that his foreign minister recently held secret talks in New York with the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela, even as the Trump administration was publicly backing an effort to unseat the Venezuelan president.

While harshly criticizing Donald Trump’s confrontational stance toward his socialist government, Maduro said he holds out hope of meeting the U.S. president soon to resolve a crisis over America’s recognition of opponent Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s rightful leader.

Maduro said that while in New York, his foreign minister invited the Washington, D.C.-based envoy, Elliott Abrams, to come to Venezuela “privately, publicly or secretly.”

“If he wants to meet, just tell me when, where and how and I’ll be there,” Maduro said without providing more details. He said both New York meetings lasted several hours.

A senior administration official in Washington who was not authorized to speak publicly said U.S. officials were willing to meet with “former Venezuela officials, including Maduro himself, to discuss their exit plans.”

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1. Assssination attempt?

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2. Maduro has been insisting that GringoLandia has been attempting to kill him for 6 years

And the die-hard Chavista conspiracy theorists still claim that the cancer that Chavez died from was actually poison.

Be assured if Uncle Sam wanted completely un-charismatic Maduro dead, he would have been found with an ice-pick buried in his skull years ago. As it turns out, Maduro's utter incompetence is the best thing for US interests in the region. He (and Chavez before him) have brought the economic envy of Latin America to the brink of humanitarian despair. Other than Bolivia and Nicaragua, the Pink Tide that had engulfed Latin America early this century is virtually extinct.