A failed attempt to capture Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro has resulted in an escalation of tensions between the U.S. and the embattled Venezuelan regime. Maduro says that two former U.S. special forces soldiers were among a group of mercenaries who were part of a foiled coup on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and supposedly backed by the United States. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has scoffed at the dictator’s claim, saying ‘”if we’d have been involved, it would have gone differently,” and is vowing to use “every tool” available to get any Americans captured by the regime back.
“We will start the process of trying to figure a way if, in fact, these are Americans that are there, that we can figure out a path forward,” Pompeo said Wednesday, as reported by the New York Post. “We want to get every American back,” Pompeo underscored. “If the Maduro regime decides to hold them, we will use every tool that we have available to try and get them back.”
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