WASHINGTON ¨C Washington ratcheted up pressure on Venezuela¡¯s leftist President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday with new measures aimed at disrupting the South American country¡¯s gold exports, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said.
Bolton promised a tough stance by the Trump administration toward ¡°dictators and despots near our shores¡± and singled out Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in a speech in Miami, which is home to large numbers of migrants from Cuba and Venezuela.
He spoke days before U.S. elections next week that include close races for a Senate seat and the governorship in Florida. His remarks were likely to be well received by those Cuban-Americans and other Hispanics in Florida who favor stronger U.S. pressure on Cuba¡¯s Communist government and other leftist governments in Latin America.
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