⚔️ War & Conflict 1d ago · Orlando Pérez

The earthquake sprung Trump's Venezuela trap

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The earthquake sprung Trump's Venezuela trap
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When the Trump administration decided to "run" Venezuela through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the aim was to keep things quiet following its January 3 raid to snatch the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro. Stability, oil, no messy transition, no open-ended commitment. The June 24 earthquakes have turned that calculation on its head. The United States now finds itself tied to a government that cannot deliver, in a country that needs years of reconstruction, facing exactly the long-term enta

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