Iranian and Venezuelan émigré networks made the case for U.S. intervention. Then the president cut them loose.
María Isabel Puerta Riera
Maria I. Puerta Riera is an adjunct professor of political science at Valencia College and a former associate professor of political science at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela.
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