Four Signs Trump’s Venezuela Strategy Is Backfiring
Four Signs Trump’s Venezuela Strategy Is Backfiring
The humanitarian toll of U.S. sanctions is mounting, and Guaidó's association with Trump has become his greatest liability.
CARACAS – Since January, the U.S. government has taken an aggressive strategy toward Venezuela – one driven by allusions to military intervention, an oil embargo and the decision to take the lead in formally recognizing National Assembly president Juan Guaidó as president, despite Nicolás Maduro’s control of the armed forces. New measures announced this month are even tougher: they include a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the U.S. and sanctions against U.S. individuals and entities that do business with the Maduro regime.
Yet the overall cost of President Donald Trump...
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