"Minister Shanahan will not travel to Europe, as he decided that staying in Washington would allow him to more effectively coordinate with the National Security Agency and the State Department on the situation in Venezuela and maintain coordination with the Ministry of Homeland Security in the framework of providing assistance to the south-west (with Mexico. - RT ), ”RIA Novosti quotes Pentagon spokesman.
Shanahan was to attend two ceremonies of change of command in Germany and Belgium, and then go to the UK.
On April 30, the leader of the opposition National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, announced the start of the final phase of Operation Freedom.
In January, Dmitry Rodionov, director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies at the Institute for Innovative Development, expressed an opinion that the United States had long interfered in the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic.