Venezuela sanctions

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro during the closing campaign ceremony for the Constituent Assembly election in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 27.

The US sanctions Venezuela’s President Maduro and calls him ‘a dictator’

July 31, 2017Economics

The United States branded Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a “dictator” on a par with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad or North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, and imposed sanctions on him.