US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that China\u2019s financing of President Nicolas Maduro\u2019s government is prolonging the crisis in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pompeo kicked off a four-country tour of Latin America in Chile, where he met with President Sebasti\u00e1n Pinera to discuss the US-China trade war and the Venezuelan crisis. Hyperinflation, shortages of food and medicine and other hardships have forced more than 3 million Venezuelans \u2014 about one-tenth of the population to flee the country in the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that Maduro used the money to use for tasks like paying off cronies, crushing pro-democracy activists, and funding ineffective social programs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a lesson, a lesson to be learned for all of us: China and others are being hypocritical calling for non-intervention in Venezuela\u2019s affairs. Their own financial interventions have helped destroy that country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cChina\u2019s bankrolling of the Maduro regime helped precipitate and prolong the crisis in that country,\u201d Pompeo said on Friday, adding that China invested over USD 60 billion, \u201cwith no strings attached.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pompeo said China is a major US trading partner, but that its \u201ctrade activities often are deeply connected to their national security mission, their technological goals, their desire to steal intellectual property, to have forced technology transfer, to engage in activity that is not economic.\u201d He also criticised Russia\u2019s links with leaders in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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