One on one with Maduro : America to fabricate a crisis to invade Venezuela, Trump sending 56 million to Venezuela citizens

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Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the U.S. government of trying to fabricate a crisis to start a war in South America in his first interview with an American television network in years.

"Everything that the United States government has done has been doomed to failure," Maduro told ABC News' Tom Llamas in Spanish from the presidential palace in Caracas. "They are trying to fabricate a crisis to justify political escalation and a military intervention in Venezuela to bring a war to South America."

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Colombia Monday morning to deliver a message from President Donald Trump to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido: "We are with you 100 percent." There, he announced that the U.S. will provide an additional $56 million in aid to Venezuelan citizens and that the U.S. Treasury Department would be imposing "stronger sanctions" on the Maduro regime's "corrupt financial networks."

The path that got you here is the fractured path that Barack Obama left behind, President Trump. It’s a path of a coup d’etat, of an intervention - that is not of the 21st century - I say to you, rectify. You will always have in me someone that is prepared - with our differences between us - to extend my hand and talk about a peaceful dialogue," he added.

Asked if he fears Trump, Maduro said he doesn't fear him... but he does fear the men around him, including Pence ("man that does not know world politics, unaware of Latin American politics"), National Security Adviser John Bolton ("an extremist and expert of the Cold War"), Eliot Abrams ("a liar that trafficked coca, arms, drugs in Central America and the world and brought war to the United States"), and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ("a CIA agent that has an antiquated scheme of old intelligence from the Cold War").

"I think these people surrounding President Trump are bad. And I think that at one point, President Trump will have to say stop , stop we have to see what happens with Venezuela, and change his politics," Maduro said.