Pompeo Taps Convicted Liar, Regime Changer as Special Envoy to Venezuela

For forty years Elliott Abrams has made a career overturning unfriendly regimes for the United States — now he looks ready, willing and poised to do it again.

News about the elevation of controversial figure Elliot Abrams should concern all impartial observers of the unfolding crisis in Venezuela. On Janurary 25th, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made Abrams the U.S. Special Envoy to Venezuela. It is an explosive new development that is expected to have major repercussions in the escalating Venezuelan conflict.Elliott Abrams has a savage history of causing or obscuring violence in Central and South America. He has also been twice convicted of unlawfully withholding information from Congress during his time with the Reagan Administration.

His involvement in the bloody Salvadorean Civil War and in the Iran-Contra Affair is well known and well documented — Elliot Abrams is a man who has orchestrated American interventions in countries around the world. He is a career regime changer in the purest sense of the word.

DURING THE REAGAN YEARS

In 1981, Ronald Reagan hired Elliott Abrams as his Assistant Secretary of State for Human…