Joshua Philipp
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2018, Trump's first term in office.
Venezuela has its presidential elections.
The opposition leader wins.
That was Juan Guaido.
Now, the platform of the opposition leader was, as I mentioned, you know, they have a big problem of Cuban infiltration working together, the Chinese Communist Party.
his presidential platform was to push out Cuban influence, to get rid of the influence the Cuban regime was exerting over to control Venezuela, right?
Which was established under Chavez.
Juan Guaido won the election, and then Maduro overturned it.
Trump noted this.
He said Maduro has stolen the election.
America recognizes Juan Guaido as the official winner of the 2018 elections.
That was, by the way, a position maintained even under the Biden administration.
The Biden administration recognizes Juan Guaido as the government in exile, and he's currently in Florida, right?
What happened was this, though.
Trump's first term in office.
Trump was talking about intervening militarily in Venezuela.
We were going to send troops there because what Maduro was doing was there were large scale protests throughout the country.
People were mad at him.
They were rioting on the streets.
He then started using paramilitary groups tied in with FARC, which is a narco terrorist organization.