Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro faces his biggest challenge yet after President Donald Trump announced a blockade of the South American nation’s sanctioned oil exports, but Washington will probably need military action to oust the long-ruling autocrat, experts said.
Trump declared Maduro’s revolutionary socialist government a foreign terrorist organisation on Tuesday and vowed “a total and complete blockade” of oil tankers subject to US sanctions heading to or from Venezuela.
To enforce it, he pointed to US warships in the Caribbean, calling the deployment the “largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America”.
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