Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slams the Maduro regime, Cuba and Russia over the deepening crisis in Venezuela
"Nicolas Maduro promised Venezuelans a better life in a socialist paradise. And he delivered on the socialism part, which has proved time and time again is a recipe for economic ruin," he said from the State Department briefing room. "The paradise part? Not so much," Pompeo remarked.Describing power outages, food shortages, medical shortages, inflation and poverty, Pompeo declared:"The United States did not do that.
"PDVSA is today now a personal ATM for the Maduro regime and for Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats," Pompeo remarked referring to the Venezuelan state-owned oil company.Earlier on Monday, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against a bank that is jointly owned by Russian and Venezuelan state companies. The Moscow-based bank Evrofinance Mosnarbank has ties to PDVSA, Treasury said.
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