CIA director Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Venezuela could become a “risk” to the US if chaos continues to roil the South American country.
“The Cubans are there; the Russians are there, the Iranians, Hezbollah are there,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “This is something that has a risk of getting to a very, very bad place, so America needs to take this very seriously.”
He said President Trump was just trying to give the country’s people hope when he floated the idea on Friday that the US would take military action after condemning Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro for human rights abuses and calling for him to hold “free and fair elections.”
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