Posted on Facebook by a great DU'er: Colombia: CIA Platform for Aggression against Venezuela
September 4, 2019
On August 28, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the creation of the Venezuela Affairs Unit (VAU), which will be located in the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. This moves leaves no doubt that Colombia is being designated as the main platform for a US made coup détat against the constitutional and legitimate government of Nicolas Maduro and the servile role that Colombian President Ivan Duque is expected to play.
The Venezuelan Affairs Unit will be headed by James Story, a former chargé daffaires at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, who was one of the last diplomats to withdraw from the mission in the Venezuelan capital in March after President Nicolas Maduro broke off relations with Washington.
The level of the VAU is not traditional in the U.S. Foreign Service, and according to press reports it will not be equated to an interests section like the one that existed in Havana, Cuba, for decades. According to State Department sources, its provisional nature places it outside the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in terms of approving its staff, although it will continue to oversee the development of bilateral relations.
The creation of the U.S. parallel diplomatic office in Bogotá had the bipartisan (Democrat/Republican) support of Congress, and seeks to give regional legitimacy to the blurred presidency of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, at a time of extreme political weakness of the internal opposition to Maduros government.
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https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/09/04/colombia-cia-platform-for-aggression-against-venezuela/?fbclid=IwAR2GOH-aTvNcsWs9l6R-Pa5sDHZ-wU9wc0C59F9fAAHkCGRf1B_hlIuvRDA