A Former Top National Security Official Says Venezuela is One of Trump's Top 3 Priorities — Alongside Iran and North Korea
A Former Top National Security Official Says Venezuela is One of Trump's Top 3 Priorities — Alongside Iran and North Korea
"The Trump administration has a policy goal for Venezuela, but is split on how to pursue it," said Mark Feierstein, former senior director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, at AS/COA's Venezuela panel.
Despite President Donald Trump's apparent overarching focus on Iran and North Korea during his first year in office, those countries apparently share their space at the top of the president's national security agenda.
The president's National Security Council "has been told that Venezuela is one of Donald Trump's top three priorities. Iran and North Korea being the other two," Mark Feierstein, who was the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere during the Obama administration, said during a panel discussion at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New York on Tuesday.
Trump has struck a more aggressive posture toward Venezuela than his predecessor, sometimes to the detriment of the effort to build consensus against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro...
