Regime Change in Action: US brands Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro a ‘dictator’ and imposes sanctions on leader amid bloodshed

‘The United States has branded Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, a “dictator” on a par with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad or North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, and imposed sanctions on him following Sunday’s controversial vote on the the constitution.
The international community rounded on Mr Maduro on Monday and condemned polling day violence in which up to 15 people were killed.
Mr Maduro hailed the vote as a “sublime” victory for the Venezuelan people, as the country’s government-allied electoral council said more than eight million people had cast ballots nationwide to give the president increased powers.
But the opposition dismissed that figure as fabricated, pointing to reports of empty polling stations and citing anonymous government sources as putting the figure at just under 2.5 million.’
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