The White House national security adviser claimed three top Venezuelan officials have defected, but none have announced a switch.
White House national security adviser John Bolton has said that the U.S. was actively backing opposition forces seeking to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
"We're providing support in a variety of respects, certainly we have done everything we can to get humanitarian assistance into the country, we're doing a lot of other things, some of which I'm not going to talk about," Bolton told said. Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino speaks in support of President Nicolás Maduro amid an armed uprising on behalf of Parliament speaker Juan Guaidó in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 30. Venezuelan Ministry of People's Power for Defense
It was unclear if Dala had offered any public statements in support of Maduro, though he was not known to have defected at the time of Bolton's talk. "They committed to support ousting Maduro and it's time for them now, if the Cubans will let them do it, to fulfill their commitments," Bolton said, accusing Havana of deploying up to 25,000 security forces in support of the fellow leftist-led Venezuelan government.
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