Venezuela is responding angrily to a report in The New York Times that details alleged secret meetings between Trump administration officials and Venezuelan military officers seeking to oust the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro. “We denounce before the international community the intervention plans and the support of military plots by the United States government,” Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Arreaza said in a tweet. The secret meetings, which NPR has not independently confirmed, were reported by Times journalists Ernesto Londoño and Nicholas Casey on Saturday based on interviews with 11 current and former U.S. officials and a former Venezuelan military commander. Speaking to Weekend Edition Sunday, Londoño said the meetings started after President Trump made a remark last August that he was not ruling out the possibility of a military option against Maduro’s government. “Down in Caracas there were some senior members of the military who had soured o
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