The Washington Examiner website recently published a report in which it states that the military option against Venezuela “continues to be a very serious option for the United States, according to President Trump’s national security team.”
A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, quoted by the website said: “Obviously, that is an outcome that no one would like to see, but clearly one that is seriously regarded as a developing event.”
The official in question went on arguing that the United States is waiting “for the [Venezuelan] military to fulfil its constitutional duty to protect the Venezuelan people from these illegal terrorist groups known as the collectives on which Maduro increasingly depends.
This statement comes after Elliott Abrams, special envoy for Venezuela from the White House, stated that it would be “premature” for anti-Chavismo, via Juan Guaidó, to call for a military intervention under Article 187 of the Venezuelan Constitution, which, it is worth noting, does not enable such an action.
It would also seem that what Abrams said generated contradictions in the US national security establishment, of which the special envoy is also a part, inclined to war as the basis for sustaining U.S. hegemony.
Translated by Francisco Domínguez.
