Maduro slams US sanctions against Venezuela

TIL Desk/World/Caracas/ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed sanctions imposed by the US government against the South American country for holding a controversial constitutional assembly election amid violent protests.

“You’re with Trump or you’re with Venezuela, you’re with Trump or you’re with the democracy, you’re with Trump or you’re with the free people of the world, that’s the decision, you’re with Trump or you’re with the free world,” Maduro said on Monday in a televised speech.

“They are the decisions that express their impotence, their despair, their hatred. They express the character of the magnate, who is emperor of the US.”

Maduro also responded to Washington’s threat to suspend the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a body that the President created to rewrite the nation’s constitution, saying: “I do not obey imperial orders of foreign governments”.

“Trump is more disowned in the US and in the world than (former US President) George W. Bush,” who declared himself ‘anti-colonialist, anti-racist’ and against the Ku Klux Klan that rules the White House,” the Venezuelan leader said.