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'It's time for action': Rick Scott calls for U.S. military involvement in Venezuela
‘It’s time for action’: Rick Scott calls for U.S. military involvement in Venezuela
By Alex Daugherty and Tara Copp
April 30, 2019 11:42 AM, Updated 34 minutes ago
Rick Scott isn’t waiting to see if Juan Guaidó can successfully get the Venezuelan military to switch sides and oust Nicolás Maduro.
The Florida senator called for the U.S. military to be positioned on the Venezuelan border on Tuesday, hours after Guaidó and Leopoldo López declared a “start of the end of the usurpation” with armed soldiers by their side.
Scott’s call for the U.S. military to “deliver aid to the people and defend freedom and democracy as well as U.S. national security interests in our hemisphere” was the strongest language used by a U.S. official on Tuesday morning. Other key figures like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Marco Rubio and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway urged the Venezuelan military to oust Maduro and expressed general support for Guaidó.
Scott also wants the U.S. military to break down barriers at the Venezuelan border erected by Maduro to allow aid into the country immediately.
“Absolutely,” Scott said in an interview with the Miami Herald when asked if U.S. troops should dismantle barriers at the border. “Every other democracy in the world that cares about freedom ought to be doing the same thing,” Scott said. “This is ridiculous. We’re seeing genocide happen right in front of our eyes and we’re not aggressive enough.”
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