Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president, Juan Guaido, has formally requested the support of United States military forces in the ongoing socio-political crisis in the country, a letter published by his representative Carlos Vecchio said on Monday, according to QCostaRica.
“We welcome strategic and operational planning so that we may fulfill our constitutional obligation to the Venezuelan people in order to alleviate their suffering and restore our democracy”, Vecchio said in the letter to Admiral Craig Faller, commander of United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).
In the letter, which is dated May 11 and published by Vecchio on Twitter on Monday (13), he requested a meeting between SOUTHCOM and “the appropriate members” of Guaido’s inner circle.