The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed on several occasions to invade Venezuela militarily, but he did not obtain support from his officials, who did not see the convenience of the United States getting directly involved, since “the national interests of the United States were not at stake” and it is there when they begin to plan indirect intervention actions in our country.
This was stated this Thursday by the historian Samuel Moncada, representative of Venezuela in the United Nations Organization, before the ordinary session of the National Parliament.
Historian Moncada analyzed in his intervention several documents from high-ranking US officials that speak of the plans against Venezuela, with the sole objective of seizing oil.
One of these documents belongs to John Bolton, security adviser to President Donald Trump.
He specified that, according to Bolton, given the refusal to support a direct intervention by the USA in Venezuela, it was decided to destabilize the country in various ways, with the idea of provoking national discontent, which would start an internal war between Venezuelans and at that time “The US would intervene as the savior of the country”.
In the opinion of the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, these interventionist plans are the most serious that the Republic has suffered, since it is not only about the aggressions of foreign powers, but also “painfully, they had the endorsement of opposition political leaders who collaborated, and (still) collaborate, with these plans of destruction”.
One of these alternative ways occurred in January 2019 with the self-proclamation of oppositionist Juan Guaidó, who contemplated coordinating a total economic blockade of the country, destroying oil production, with the intention that the Maduro government would not last a week and a civil war would break out in Venezuela.
Within the framework of this plan, former President Donald Trump announced the freezing of Venezuelan accounts abroad, the appropriation of the Citgo company, the blocking of our international reserves and asked the world to recognize Guaidó as president and disown President Nicolás Maduro.
Given the failure of this route, they applied the second plan against the country, which occurred a month later (February 23), with the support of several Latin American countries such as Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and the OAS
That day, in addition to looking for a civil war in the country, they had hundreds of mercenaries ready at the border willing to enter Venezuela and, would it fail, they had planned the possibility of that Colombia would invade Venezuela.
That fact was defined by Ambassador Moncada as one of the most serious crimes against the history of relations between Colombia and Venezuela, since the United States was looking for a war, which fortunately did not occur because -according to John Bolton in his book- Colombia got cold feet.
Regarding the third attack against the country, Moncada recalled what happened on March 7 when “one of the biggest terrorist acts against the vital structure of the country, with the electrical blackout” was prepared from the US, which hours before, in the Senate of USA, had been “predicted” by Senator Marcos Rubio.
Then comes the fourth attempt to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, in April of that 2019, in which sectors of the opposition also actively participated and where there was also an international conspiracy.
In Moncada’s opinion, this new attempt also failed, thanks to the resistance of the people, our National Armed Forces and the government.
