Pompeo said that Maduro was ready to leave Venezuela

According to Pompeo, the Venezuelan leader was supposedly going to fly to Cuba, but Russian representatives dissuaded him from this step.

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“There was an airplane on his runway that was ready to take off this morning, as we understand, but the Russians made it clear that he needed to stay (in the country - RT ),” the US Secretary of State said.

On April 30, the leader of the opposition National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, announced the start of the final phase of Operation Freedom.

Assistant to the President of the United States for national security, John Bolton, said that the US authorities consider what is happening in Venezuela at the moment as a “potentially crucial moment”.

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.