Pompeo promotes anti-Maduro campaign in ‘war-mongering` tour
(World News Brazil)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pounced on an opportunity during a South American tour, which has been blasted by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a “war-mongering” visit, to ramp up pressure on the leftist leader to resign. During the second leg of his three-day Latin American tour, Pompeo visited on Friday a refugee center in the town of Boa Vista, Brazil, on the border with Venezuela, putting on an insincerely sympathetic face as he underlined the plight of the nearly five million Venezuelans who have been forced to leave the country due to economic crises triggered by illegal US sanctions against the government in Caracas. `Those people I talked to today are desperate to...