Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said on Friday that US National Security Adviser John Bolton has been sending him messages asking him to do the “right thing”, Reuters reported.
“Mr. Bolton, I tell you that we are doing the right thing”, Padrino said in televised comments, quoted by Reuters. “Doing the right thing is doing what’s written in the constitution…. Doing the right thing is respecting the will of the people”.
Padrino said last week that the Venezuelan army does not recognize National Assembly head Juan Guaido as the country’s president. “We, the soldiers of the Motherland, do not accept the president imposed in the shadow of dark interests, a self-proclaimed outlaw”, the minister said.