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国务卿就撤离美国驻委内瑞拉使馆工作人员表示：“我们昨天作出了这个决定，让大家回来是谨慎的做法。那里的局势正在恶化。马杜罗政权在过去数年间骇人的领导已经使那里的生活艰难至此了，它开始让美国采取所需的行动来支持委内瑞拉人民变得更加困难。所以我们得出了结论，采取这一步是完全正确的，此时是这样做的正确时刻。”

2019年3月12日，接受休斯顿KTRH电台早间新闻Jimmy Barrett 和 Shara Fryer的采访

Secretary on withdrawing U.S. personnel from the Embassy in Venezuela: “We made the decision yesterday that it just was prudent to get these folks back. The situation there is deteriorating. The Maduro regime’s horrific leadership over the last years has juts made life there so difficult, it began to make it more difficult for the United States to take the actions that it needed to do to support the Venezuelan people. So we concluded this was simply the right step to take and this was the right time to take it.” 

Interview with Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer on KTRH Houston’s Morning News, March 12, 2019

Link: https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2019/03/290279.htm