Trump threatens Venezuela with sanctions: Maduro says he will not be intimidated

Wednesday, July 19th 2017 - 07:04 UTC

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In a statement released Monday night, President Trump threatened to impose economic sanctions on Venezuela should the nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, follow through on his pledge to create a “constituent assembly” capable of rewriting Venezuela’s constitution. Read full article

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Bisley
Something needs to be done to rid Venezuela of this tyrannical socialist regime which has destroyed freedom and prosperity in the country, but sanctions won't do it. Economic sanctions are generally worthless as a means to influence tyrannical governments. There are always friendly governments that will provide alternate routes of commerce to evade them, and any effect they do have will be shifted to the public, rather than deprive the government of resources. Nothing but force will remove these people from power.
Jul 19th, 2017 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tr0lListic_Approach
“Yet their strong and courageous actions continue to be ignored by a bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator.”

Don't you say, Mr. Trump?
Jul 25th, 2017 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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