The
United States is not seeking a military intervention as a solution to the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, the U.S. envoy to the troubled South
American nation said in an interview published by a Venezuelan online news site on Sunday.
Washington this year disavowed Maduro, whose 2018 re-election was widely dismissed as a farce, and recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president.
The United States on Wednesday opened a representative office called the
Venezuela Affairs Unit (VAU), based in Colombia, to provide U.S. diplomatic representation to Guaido's interim government and to continue pressuring for a transition.