Of the situation in Venezuela, Mike Pompeo, then director of the CIA, asserted, "The Cubans are there; the Russians are there, the Iranians, Hezbollah are there. This is something that has a risk of getting to a very, very bad place, so America needs to take this very seriously''53 We might want to call obliviousness toward the irregular war in Latin America "management by exception" or "economy of risks." Rather than being oblivious to it, foreign strategy makers might simply not have sensed the severity of the danger posed. They might also have considered the parties responsible for the Venezuelan disaster benign.
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