“The main mission was to liberate Venezuela, to capture Maduro, but the mission in Caracas failed,” Goudreau told Bloomberg News. Now, he wants U.S. officials to “engage and try to get these guys back,” Goudreau told The Washington Post. The current episode smacks of “Keystone Cops” meets “Bay of Pigs,” Brett McGurk, a former Trump and Obama administration diplomat, suggested on Twitter. The Bay of Pigs is also an enduring, loaded metaphor for American meddling and overreach abroad. Tanking oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic have put him under even greater pressure, with aid organizations and opposition officials warning of the risk of the country’s already enfeebled health system collapsing under new strains.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2020 04:00 UTC