US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has vowed to continue piling pressure on Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro a day after troops clashed with protesters at the country’s border with Colombia. Two people were killed in a clash on the Brazilian border and some 300 were injured in other violent clashes near Colombia. Mr Pomeo said the US will continue piling on the pressure until Mr Maduro realises his days are “numbered.” He told both Fox News Sunday and CNN’s State of the Union that the Trump administration will continue to support opposition leader Juan Guaido. Mr Pompeo declined to rule out U.S. military force as an option, but he added, “There’s more sanctions to be had, there’s more humanitarian assistance I think that we can provide.” Mr Maduro has blocked such aid at the border and resisted calls to step aside and let Guaido take power. Mr Pompeo says the U.S. will seek “other ways” to get food aid to Venezuelans. Vice President Mike Pence travels to Bogota, Colombia, on Monday for an emergency meeting on Venezuela with foreign ministers from more than a dozen, mostly conservative Latin American and Caribbean states. Mr Guaido said on Saturday he would meet… Read full this story
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