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After the United States ordered sanctions to be placed on seven Venezuelan officials for human rights violations, Maduro used anti-U.S. rhetoric to bump up his approval ratings. [16] [17] However, according to Venezuelan political scientist Isabella Picón, only about 15% of Venezuelans believed in the alleged coup attempt accusations at the ...
An April 2019 communication from the U.S. State Department highlighted the 2017 National Assembly investigation finding that the government paid US$42 for food boxes that cost under US$13, and that "Maduro's inner circle kept the difference, which totaled more than $200 million dollars in at least one case", adding that food boxes were ...
Maduro, 62, has been in power since 2013, and the new sanctions come little more than a week before U.S. President Joe Biden will end his term and be succeeded by Donald Trump on Jan. 20.
U.S. President Donald Trump - who during his first term used a "maximum pressure" sanctions policy against President Nicolas Maduro - referred to Maduro as a dictator during the 2024 U.S. campaign.
The sanctions target 21 individuals, including 15 leaders of the Bolivarian National Guard, Bolivarian National Police, the… US issues new sanctions on Maduro allies in Venezuela over fraudulent ...
Since 1990, the use of sanctions by the United States has significantly increased, and since 1998, the US has established economic sanctions on more than 20 countries. [ 89 ] According to Daniel T. Griswold , sanctions failed to change the behavior of sanctioned countries but they have barred American companies from economic opportunities and ...
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday slapped a new round of sanctions on the Maduro regime, this time targeting "officials who lead key economic and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration said on Thursday it was imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to voter fraud in the country's ...