Nation and World News By Associated Press | Saturday, May 4, 2019, 12:05 a.m. Share this story U.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam on Feb. 28. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) US missed its chance to woo Venezuela generals CARACAS, Venezuela — Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence, wanted to send his 3-year-old son to Boston for brain surgery and needed visas for his family. ADVERTISING After days of internal debate, the still young Trump administration rejected the request, seeing no point in helping a senior member of a socialist government that it viewed as corrupt and thuggish but wasn’t yet prepared to confront. That decision, revealed to The Associated Press by a former U.S. official and another person familiar with the internal discussions, might have gone unnoticed if National Security Adviser John Bolton hadn’t admonished Hernandez this week on live TV as one of three regime insiders who backed out of a plan — allegedly at the last minute — to topple President Nicolás Maduro. It might also… Read full this story
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