Former US Defense Secretary revealed plans against Cuba and Venezuela

Mark Thomas Esper. Photo: Globovision.

Mark Esper, former United States Secretary of Defense between 2017 and 2021, while Donald Trump was president of the nation, published in early May a book titled holy oath, Where he revealed the plans of the aggressors against Cuba and Venezuela.

The text talks about the meeting between former opposition deputy Juan Guaido and Trump, and highlights that it was the starting point for many officials in the North American country to increase their interest in planning. Military invasion and military operations with Colombian mercenaries in Venezuela and the assassination of President Nicolas Maduro.

In addition, according to Esper, they also intended to confiscate Venezuelan goods such as oil, even in international waters.

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PresidentialVen May 17 2022

Similarly, during a meeting with all the heads of the US intelligence services, in March 2020, the White House administration demonstrated its interest in stifling the economy of Cuba and Venezuela by imposing a domestic naval blockade, an issue that has been described as absurd.

For his part, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, summarized the book and stated that The former defense minister agreed to cut Venezuela’s oil revenue, but the naval blockade was an “old and fancy” idea.

However, the United States found an alternative to a comprehensive military embargo through its National Security Adviser, Robert O’Brien, who suggested stopping and confiscating ships carrying Venezuelan oil to Cuba.

Oil was the currency with which Caracas compensated Havana for its support. We will eventually learn that Mauricio Clavier Carone, the senior director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere, has been pushing a hawkish trend in the White House, and found a sympathetic ear for military options in O’Brien,” Esper wrote.

In this sense, the Venezuelan diplomat pointed out The former secretary learned that both Trump and O’Brien were in favor of the use of military forceWithout taking into account the justification or international consequences.

Despite this, Moncada asserts, the then-chief of defense considered that he would be charged with violating or failing to comply with the then-president’s instructions.

The confiscation of oil tankers was not an idea that would bear fruit, just as the United States did not find the legal grounds for carrying out the confiscation and the consequences of international resonance were not foreseen.

Moncada concluded by emphasizing that other issues, such as what to do with the captured ship, or which port to put it in, were not clear either.

It is worth noting that President Maduro, after denouncing on Monday an organized plan by Colombia aimed at attacking military and police stations in Venezuela, Urged the investigation of the statements of the former Minister of Defense in the aforementioned book.

Among the issues revealed by the letter, it asserts that during the Trump administration, the former president suggested to Guaido and sections of the far right to assassinate him.

“I hope that the National Council will open an investigation into these dangerous discoveries of the former Secretary of Defense Donald Trump, in which they spoke about the invasion of Venezuela, and they spoke of the use of mercenaries from Colombia to invade Venezuela, and they spoke of the assassination of Nicolas Maduro and others; ministers, ministers and state leaders,” the President declared.

(taken from TeleSur)

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