Background Press Call on Venezuelan Policy

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 18, 2020

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The President was clear in his message at the State of the Union that we will continue to take measures. … we are probably at 50 or 60 percent of our maximum pressure campaign. … we will continue moving in one direction only: towards maximum pressure until there is a democratic transition.

The other thing the President stated, which I’ll repeat, and is his Trump doctrine: for this to be the first fully democratic hemisphere in human history. The President believes that. He believes that our foreign policy begins in the Western Hemisphere, it begins with our neighbors, it begins in our zone of influence. And we’ll continue to take measures and we’ll continue to recalibrate the U.S. government and all of our tools and all of our resources to ensure that we fulfill that goal of a free and fully democratic Western Hemisphere, and definitely not allow extra-continental actors or others to subvert democracy, to instill insecurity, and to destabilize our neighbors in the region.

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