Former US Secretary of Defense says Trump asked Guaid to kill Maduro

[Judi Lynn]

May 14, 2022



Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper revealed in a book that former President Donald Trump proposed on February 5, 2020, the possibility that the US military will “get rid” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Trump made the offer to opposition leaders Juan Guaido, Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchio and Mauricio Claver-Carone, who met with the US President at the White House.

“What happens if the US army comes and gets rid of Maduro?” Trump raised, always according to Esper, who points out in his book Sacred Oath that “I think he put Guaidó to the test.”

Guaidó then replied that “of course, we will always welcome the help of the United States”, and stated that the Venezuelans who lived in Colombia “want to regain their country.” Esper then asked if the Venezuelans would be willing to “organise, train and fight” because “the US Army has experience in training foreign troops.” “Yes, it would be,” Guaidó replied, though Esper said it “didn’t sound very confident.”

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Original article in Spanish:

https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20220514/8267134/exsecretario-defensa-eeuu-revela-trump-planteo-guaido-matar-maduro.html

More of the article translated from La Vanguardia:

Guaidó, Borges and Vecchio argued that "it would be easier and faster if the United States did it for us." "Esper asked again: 'If some of those Venezuelans could be trained and equipped by the United States, would they be willing to fight?' He never had a clear answer: 'they told me it was very complicated and would take a long time'", Esper recounted.

The former Secretary of Defense has revealed another meeting held on June 9, 2020 with the White House National Security Adviser, Robert O'Brien, who proposed an air or amphibious attack on the José Antonio Anzoátegui Refining Complex to paralyze the oil economy and, with the chaos and popular suffering, overthrow Maduro and impose Juan Guaidó as head of government.

These plans eventually materialized in Operation Gideon, in which two former members of the US special forces led nearly 60 Venezuelan dissidents who entered the country in boats with the intention of apprehending and overthrowing Maduro.

"The assassination of President Maduro was discussed in the White House with the presence of Guaidó, Borges and Vecchio. Mauricio Claver-Carone was part of the plan. A plan very similar to the assassination of the President of Haiti with Colombian mercenaries. In Venezuela it failed" , highlighted the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, in a thread on Twitter commenting on extracts from Esper's book.

Sounds a little like the Bay of Pigs by Cuban "exiles" from the US, too, doesn't it?

[NJCher]

1. How embarrassing

We had this idiot out there acting like he’s the u.s. godfather.

The cia must have been cringing.

He has cost us dearly in terms of the effectiveness of the democratic system. If democracy is in peril, the reason for it is this, right here.