The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike Pompeo, confessed that the espionage services were behind some of the measures adopted in the latest months against Venezuela.
“The second or third set of sanctions obeyed our recommendations,” acknowledged the director of the CIA, quoted on Tuesday by the EFE agency.
Pompeo revealed, after his participation in a conference at the American Enterprise Institute, that the President of the United States (USA), Donald Trump, had been especially interested in the CIA reports on Venezuela: “He wanted more clarity in relation to some financial matters, such as who had the money”, he said.
The director of the CIA also confessed that the President of the US had a special interest in knowing “how the Government of President Nicolás Maduro was related to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), in order to have a more complete image”, He added that before this, the Agency prepared a new series of reports.
At the beginning of August last year, the US President, Donald Trump, escalated his attack against Venezuela by including the possibility of a military intervention between the actions with the Bolivarian country: “We have many options regarding Venezuela, including a possible military option. if it is necessary”, he declared at the time.
On 25 that month, the Government of Donald Trump signed an executive order in which were imposed new economic sanctions against Venezuela. In the decree, the US Government prohibits all its commercial and financial partners, and American companies or with US capital to make any agreement or transaction with Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the main industry that supports the country’s economy.
In the last months of 2017, the US sanctioned close to 30 top Venezuelan officials, including the Chairwoman of the National Electoral Council, Tibisay Lucena; the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab and the Minister for Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace, Néstor Reverol.
