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In Florida Visit, Trump Melds Venezuela Policy, Campaign Strategy

Patsy Widakuswara

   Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump flew to
   Florida on Friday on a visit that melded his administration's policy
   toward Venezuela and Cuba and his reelection bid in one of the nation's
   biggest swing states.

   Trump hosted a round-table discussion in Doral, in Miami-Dade County,
   home to one of the largest Venezuelan communities in the United States.
   Flanked by Venezuelan and Cuban dissidents, Trump reiterated his
   administration's support for the people of Venezuela and Cuba.

   "We are standing with the righteous leader of Venezuela, Juan Guaido,"
   Trump said, adding that he had ended the "Obama-Biden sellout to the
   Castro regime."

   Trump laid out a similar message at an earlier event Friday as he met
   with leaders of the U.S. Southern Command to review the
   counternarcotics operation in the Caribbean, an effort his
   administration has described partly as an attempt to intercept funds
   going to the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

   "We're going to fight for Venezuela and we're going to be fighting for
   our friends from Cuba," Trump said.

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