Newsdeck: Trump tells Russia to get its troops out of Venezuela By Al Jazeera
epa07353611 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace of Miraflores, in Caracas, Venezuela, 08 February 2019. Maduro said on Friday to be willing to meet with envoys of the international contact group promoted by some Latin American countries and the European Union that seeks to create the conditions to call new 'fair' and 'free' elections in the country.
Russia and China have backed President Nicolas Maduro , while the United States and most Western countries support opposition leader Juan Guaido . In January, Guaido invoked the constitution to declare himself interim president, arguing Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate.“They’ve got a lot of pressure right now. They have no money, they have no oil, they have no nothing. They’ve got plenty of pressure right now. They have no electricity,” Trump said.
“It’s not up to US to decide actions and fate of other countries. It’s only up to the people of Venezuela and its only legitimate President Nicolas Maduro,” Polyanskiy said on Twitter. Trump hosted Guaido’s wife, Fabiana Rosales, who is a journalist and opposition activist, at the White House on Wednesday.“I fear for my husband’s life,” she said. She was accompanied by the wife and sister of Roberto Marrero, Guaido’s chief of staff, who was arrested and detained last week.
She is slated to meet US first lady Melania Trump in Palm Beach on Thursday on a quick stop in south Florida, home to the largest community of Venezuelan exiles in the United States. Maduro said an “attack” on its electrical system caused the blackout that first hit on Monday. The outage closed businesses, paralysed the country’s main oil export terminal, and stranded commuters.
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