Trump Administration Hits Venezuela's State Oil Company With Sanctions | TIME

The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday on the state-owned oil company of Venezuela, a potentially critical economic move aimed at increasing pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to cede power to the opposition.

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Trump Administration Hits Venezuela's State Oil Company With Sanctions | TIME

[narujan]

Venezuela "has the world's largest proven oil reserves - even bigger than Saudi Arabia". The US will not leave it alone.

[np]

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Oil Wars Episode III:
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[alexm]

Leave Venezuela alone the reason they can't take care of their citizens is because of the sanctions that we've put on them

[lilpapalstate]

Why is only America getting criticized for this when 21 other countries are involved. Grow up people

[eddieohearn]

Sanctions - expect gas prices to go up maybe to $80 per barrel as sanctions kick in and OPEC reduces output.

[rosembergarias]

Woah woah woah! Everyone needs to chill the F! Lets get some Taco Bell and start from there.

[snakesollid]

Here comes another Afghanistan and Libya and not to mention Syria...

[josevilla]

Today, Nicolás Maduro... Tomorrow, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Miguel Díaz Canel.

Death to Narco-communism and Narco-dictators!

[willcline]

Folks, keep in mind that the Venezuelan government has a very active social media group. Most if not all posts supporting this government comes directly from the Venezuelan government.

[nateskywalker]

Stop the blood sacrifice please. No more war.

[GodWeenSatan]

Republicrats take a half step forward and then double back

[piknick]

I don't want anything to do with Venezuela. I'm for many of trump's ideas but I never liked Bolton, the guy is a war monger that has no skin in the game. Bolton was a part of why we got caught up in the middle east.

[歌歌-th]

Bolton is typical of someone who had his lunch taken from him back in school

[dddd-vfvg]

Again, all options are on the table. How many times have I heard from the press?!
Very soon, Venezuela's oil money will need to exchange for U.S protections. Democracy is so promising :)

[MisfitJ]

Leave Venezuela to the people of Venezuela. No sanctions. England give them back their gold!

[Jacen]

*Seeing how most of Venezuela's refinement infrastructure is currenty "off-line" as a result of sheer incompetence, it will likely kill whatever production they had to begin with.*

[Mcse]

Good 👍 help those helpless people. GoTrump.

[jasenjahn]

I thought trumpster wanted to concentrate on the US. Here we go again...another war.

[matthewmiller]

i wonder if this will turn out like mercs 2 man that game is fun

[crazynature]

Yay, more war. I'm excited. You guys excited? There isnt a single year that's went by since my birth that we haven't either bombed, invaded, started a coup, or outright been a war with someone. Guess how old I am.