Trump administration denies involvement in retired Green Beret's alleged operation against Venezuela's Maduro.
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The bizarre incident has seized headlines in recent days, with Maduro and his allies casting it as another American-led effort to push him from power and the State Department suggesting it could be part of"a major disinformation campaign underway by the Maduro regime."Speaking to reporters at the White House Tuesday, Trump said he was just hearing about it,"But whatever it is, we'll let you know. But it has nothing to do with our government.
Once one of the Western hemisphere's richest countries, Venezuela has faced an economic, humanitarian, and now political crisis in recent years, as Guaidó and other opposition leaders have tried to push out Maduro over his mismanagement of the economy and consolidation of power. With sky-high inflation and dire shortages of food and medicine, over five million people have been forced to flee the country.But even after the U.S.
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2020 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump walks to a meeting in the Oval Office with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido at the White House in Washington. According to interviews with opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and aspiring freedom fighters, planning for a clandestine cross border incursion from Colombia began in the aftermath of an April 30, 2019 barracks revolt by soldiers who betrayed Maduro and swore loyalty to Guaido, who the U.S.
President Donald Trump speaks during a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures personal protective equipment in Phoenix, May 5, 2020.
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