“All Options On Table” – US Threatens Sanctions As Venezuela’s Maduro Vows To Create New Constitution

Tuesday, July 18, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jul 18, 2017

The US is weighing whether to impose sanctions on Venezuela’s defense minister and several other top officials for human-rights violations, according to Bloomberg, citing officials familiar with the government’s deliberations. They added that the action was one of several under consideration by the Trump administration against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

Despite these and other threats from the US, the country’s embattled leadership remains defiant, vowing to proceed with plans for a controversial new congress despite what it called a “brutal interventionist” threat by Washington to impose economic sanctions, according to Reuters.

The above-mentioned comments – pushing back against what some view as the United States meddling in the affairs of a foreign power – followed the president’s threat to take “strong and swift economic actions” if Maduro goes ahead with the new body. As some have pointed out, his threats relating to Venezuela are sounding increasingly militaristic, prompting taunts from Maduro, who last month dared Trump to “send in the Marines.”

A vote on whether to create the new Congress is set for July 30 – a vote that is widely expected to succeed. The legislative super-body, known as a Constituent Assembly, would help Maduro rewrite the country’s constitution, ultimately helping him consolidate his authority.

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