Pompeo says urged Russia to end support for Venezuela's Maduro US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that he urged Russia in talks to end support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but his call was flatly rejected by Moscow."The time has come for Nicolas Maduro to go, he has brought nothing but misery to the Venezuelan people, and we hope that Russian support for Maduro will end," Pompeo tells a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. SOUNDBITE of Mike Pompeo