President Biden deserves applause for his first moves on Venezuela. Biden not only is disproving former President Trump’s ridiculous claims that he’s a “Socialist” who would befriend Venezuela’s dictatorship, the president also is exploring more-effective ways to press for democratic changes in that country.
First, Biden rightly refers to Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro as “a dictator.” And the Biden administration seems to be in no rush to relax U.S. sanctions against top Venezuelan officials that were begun by President Obama in 2014, then expanded during the Trump administration.
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