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Ameri-coup in Venezuela? Why Caracas fears regime change
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The Indian Express
There is a very real fear of regime change in Venezuela.
Over the past week, the buildup of the United States’ naval assets in the Caribbean has ballooned to include seven destroyers, multiple amphibious landing craft, and one nuclear-powered attack submarine, Reuters reported.
Experts and Venezuelan officials believe that Donald Trump’s real motives are to force Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro out of power, by hook or by crook.
Reasons to be waryEven if history alone was not enough to justify Caracas’ fears of regime change, Trump’s actions, in this term and his previous one, have not left much to imagination.
This came after Washington imposed sanctions on the sale of oil to the US, a major source of income for Venezuela.