Russia’s geopolitical interests in having Venezuela as an ally in the Americas are pretty clear. Yuri Kadobnov/AP Photo
By Youri Kemp
Caribbean News Now associate editor
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NEW YORK, USA — The Trump administration, Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro’s main detractor, last week presented a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling for international aid deliveries to increase unabated and for new presidential elections to be held in Venezuela.
The US has been vocal about its support for the Venezuelan National Assembly president, Juan Guaido, who announced himself as interim president earlier this year, which has caused Maduro’s supporters and allies to claim interference from the USA and have gone as far as to warn against a US military invasion and further US unilateral action against the Maduro regime, a regime that Washington claims to be illegitimate.
The US draft resolution, along with strong language expressing support for the Venezuelan National Assembly, which the US claims is the only democratically elected institution in Venezuela, also expresses the US’s deep concern over the brutality of the Venezuelan armed forces on peaceful protestors and also “stresses the need to prevent a further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Venezuela and to facilitate access and delivery of assistance to all in need in the entirety of the territory of Venezuela.”
