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US financial sanctions on Venezuela

Monday, 28 August 2017 12:28 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 28 August 2017 12:29 AM ]

The US has imposed sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela amid the economic hardships the nation is grappling with. The measures aim to QUOTE put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to free political prisoners and to roll back plans to rewrite the constitution. Caracas has rejected the sanctions as hostile.

In this episode of The Debate, Press TV has conducted an interview with Daniel Shaw, a Latin America expert from New York, and Fredrick Peterson, a senior US congressional defense adviser from Norfolk, to discuss the latest US financial sanctions on Venezuela amid the economic hardships the nation is grappling with.

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