Editorial: The US is ramping up the pressure on Nicolás Maduro with a tanker seizure and expanded sanctions following threats and boat strikes

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Trump also said Colombia’s president ‘will be next’ as he announced major escalation in US pressure on Nicolás Maduro

Maduro continues to call for dialogue but has warned he will stand against the ‘aggressions of imperialism’ if needed

We look at what is behind the deployment of a large US military force to within striking distance of Venezuela.

US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s campaign against the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, whose government…

US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s campaign against the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, whose government…

The South American nation's output has plummeted and restoring its former glory would be a heavy lift.

Trump’s violent new tactics build on years of US sanctions and intervention that have devastated ordinary Venezuelans.

Editorial: The US is ramping up the pressure on Nicolás Maduro with a tanker seizure and expanded sanctions following threats and boat strikes