Deploying one of his customary emotive speeches, United States President Donald Trump, on September 25th, unleashed yet another salvo against the government of President Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, restating what he says is Washington’s commitment to correcting the “tragedy of historic proportions” that exists in Venezuela.
In the process the US President itemised the considerable list of sanctions which Washington has already imposed on the Maduro administration over the past year, not least those preventing President Maduro and those who Trump describes as his “enablers” from accessing the US financial system.
Just last month, Trump issued an executive order which, in effect completely froze the assets of the Maduro government in the United States, which sanctions Trump said during his presentation, “have been tightly focussed on closing down every avenue” used by what Trump described as President Maduro’s “criminal and totalitarian rule.”