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To help restore democracy in Venezuela, Trump must stop harassing Mexico

En Miami Herald / 24 febrero, 2017

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Many Venezuelan opposition leaders and exiles are hopeful that President Trump will take a tough line on Venezuela, and help restore democracy in that country. But I’m skeptical, for a reason that doesn’t have anything to do with Venezuela.

Granted, Trump has in recent days received the wife of Venezuela’s imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, and the Trump administration on Feb. 13 announced the freezing Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami’s assets in the United States, accusing him of being a narco «kingpin.»

And there are many other things that Trump could do unilaterally — if he wanted — against Venezuela’s authoritarian ruler Nicolas Maduro.

Trump could, for instance, order the U.S. Justice Department to name the top Venezuelan government officials who received $98 million in bribes admittedly paid to that country’s government by the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

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Andres Oppenheimer
Es el editor para América Latina y Columnista de “The Miami Herald,” conductor del programa “Oppenheimer Presenta” por CNN en Español, y autor de siete Best-Sellers. Su columna “El Informe Oppenheimer” es publicada regularmente en más de 60 periódicos de todo el mundo, incluidos “The Miami Herald” de EEUU, La Nación de Argentina, El Mercurio de Chile, El Comercio de Perú, y Reforma de México.




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