Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, meets with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, marking the first time the two have met since Trump recognized the young leader as the legitimate president of the country.
The senior administration official said Venezuela is a national security priority because of the destabilizing effect it has on its neighbors. The Trump administration is at best, halfway to achieving maximum pressure on Maduro and his government, said the official.
Earlier on Wednesday, Guaidó met with Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, as well as other Republican senators at the Capitol.In January 2019, Guaidó invoked the constitution as a legislative leader to assume interim presidency and declared Maduro a usurper. Maduro’s 2018 reelection, in which key opposition figures were barred from running, was rejected by the legislature, the U.S.
Guaidó has not been able to deliver the change in Venezuela he has promised, and Maduro remains in power with military backing and control over most branches of the government.
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