{"id":40686,"date":"2017-08-14T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T09:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40686"},"modified":"2017-08-14T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T09:10:19","slug":"pence-defends-trumps-venezuela-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/pence-defends-trumps-venezuela-stance.html","title":{"rendered":"Pence defends Trump’s Venezuela stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pence defends Trump’s Venezuela stance<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Pence defends Trump’s Venezuela stance:- US Vice President Mike Pence has defended Donald Trump’s comments that military intervention could be used to solve the crisis in Venezuela.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of a regional tour, he said President Trump was showing “his resolve not to stand by and let a neighbour collapse into dictatorship”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Pence said the US would use its “full economic and diplomatic weight to help restore democracy in Venezuela”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was speaking in the Colombian city of Cartagena.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Pence said the US would involve countries across the world to pressure the Venezuelan government to allow elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked by reporters whether pressure would include oil sanctions, Mr Pence said the US was looking at a “full range of economic sanctions” .<\/span><\/p>\n

Many analysts have questioned the timing of President Trump’s comments last Friday, ahead of Mr Pence’s visit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement was immediately rejected from all quarters in Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n

The opposition MUD coalition in Venezuela which has organised months of protests in favour of elections said the only way forward was to “re-establish democracy through free and fair elections”.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was also criticism from the South American trade bloc, Mercosur and individually from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru – some of Venezuela’s severest critics.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were also concerns that Mr Trump might have weakened regional pressure on the Venezuelan government by giving President Nicolas Maduro a chance to intensify his frequently made allegations that the US is plotting with the opposition calling for his removal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Maduro has consistently argued that the US is trying to remove him to get hold of Venezuela’s oil reserves – the largest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-40920074<\/span><\/p>\n

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