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US imposed sanctions on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro

August 2 , 2017 2669 days 1381 0
• The US government has frozen any assets held by Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro in the US, after he held a controversial poll. • The US imposed sanctions in response to the July 30 elections of representatives of the Constituent Assembly that Maduro planned to use to draft a new national charter. However, the opposition and other social societies criticized the move as a way for Maduro to consolidate a dictatorship in the country.

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