Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Thursday that U.S. relations with Venezuela are moving away from diplomacy and are a matter of law enforcement.
“Usually when there are differences between countries, representatives from both governments can get together to try to work them out—that’s what diplomacy is all about. But that assumes that both countries actually have governments,” Landau stated in an Aug. 7 post on X.
“That’s unfortunately not the case with Venezuela, which has been hijacked by a criminal gang. Accordingly, our relations with Venezuela are fundamentally a law enforcement matter, not a diplomatic matter,” he added. …