February 25, 2019

After a weekend of high drama but few results at Venezuela’s border, the United States and other nations appeared resigned Monday to the fact that forcing President Nicolás Maduro from power will be neither quick nor easy.

Vice President Pence, addressing a group of Latin American leaders in Bogota, Colombia, repeated the Trump administration’s assurance that “all options” are on the table but offered up only minor new U.S. sanctions.

In his address to the Lima Group, the 14-nation diplomatic consortium supporting Maduro’s replacement with opposition leader Juan Guaidó, Pence gave no indication that the United States was ready to use force.

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