VENEZUELA
Fight or Flight
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro thumbed his nose at the prospect of more US sanctions and said he’s seeking an international arrest warrant for former Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz, who fled the country last week.
“I have prepared a set of decisions and measures to defend us against commercial, financial or oil blockades that Donald Trump will decree,” Bloomberg quoted Maduro as saying.
Ortega and her husband fled to Colombia to avoid what they claim are politically motivated charges at home. A former Maduro loyalist, Ortega began opposing him earlier this year and sought to stop the elections for the controversial Constituent Assembly – which was formed on July 30 to rewrite Venezuela’s constitution in the face of the threat of a crippling US oil embargo.
She’s now set to address a meeting of the regional economic group Mercosur in Brazil, where she claims she will “show the world proof that will incriminate President Nicolas M
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