pjmedia.com By Sarah Anderson
On Tuesday evening, I heard that a high-level member of Donald Trump’s cabinet would visit Venezuela on Wednesday. I was hoping it was Marco Rubio — I really can’t wait for the day he’s able to visit Caracas — but, as it turns out, it was Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
It’s a big deal. Maybe not a Rubio big deal, but a big deal all the same. Burgum is the second major member of the Trump administration to visit the country in recent weeks. The first was Energy Secretary Chris Wright. And Wright was the first one to visit since before the Hugo Chávez years began in the late 1990s. The fact that these people are just flying in and hanging out is so symbolic of how far Trump and Rubio have come with this project in just two months.
Burgum was in town to meet with Trump’s pawn, “acting president” Delcy Rodríguez, at Miraflores Palace and talk about a topic that seems to be on everyone’s minds lately: minerals. Upon arrival, he and a couple dozen U.S. and international mining executives were greeted by our woman on the ground, Chargé d’Affaires Laura Dogu…
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