In Guyana, Pompeo again calls for Venezuela’s Maduro to go

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — U.S. Secretary of Inform Mike Pompeo visited Guyana on Friday, saying the govt.in neighboring Venezuela is illegitimate and must leave vitality.

Pompeo made the remarks at a news convention with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali. Pompeo is on a four-nation swing by design of South The United States. He has visited Suriname and, following the Guyana test with, changed into headed to northern Brazil prior to a stopover in Colombia on the design in which again to the us.

The U.S. has space aside $5 million to serve Guyanese authorities contend with extra than 30,000 refugees who maintain fled from Venezuela to Guyana in most sleek years. Washington blames the govt.of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for the deterioration of the country’s economy, traditional companies and products and democratic institutions, even supposing U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó has been unable to maintain interaction over the protection power and has lost the enhance of some opposition figures.

“We know two issues. The Maduro regime has decimated the of us of Venezuela and that Maduro himself is an indicted narcotics trafficker. This implies he has to leave,” Pompeo said.

Maduro says the U.S. seeks to stage a coup in Venezuela and that U.S. sanctions maintain hobbled the economy.