Russia and Cuban military forces won’t fight to preserve Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.

That was the message Wednesday from Ambassdor Gustavo Tarre, an envoy from Maduro’s archrival, Juan Guaidó, the top opposition lawmaker whom President Trump and other Western democratic leaders have recognized as the interim president of Venezuela.

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