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Trump slams Venezuela at UN; Maduro calls him 'Hitler'

President Donald Trump urged world leaders Tuesday to help restore "democracy and political freedoms" in Venezuela, singling out the South American country for some of his most blistering criticism in a speech to the United Nations.

 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hit back by calling the US president "the new Hitler" of international politics. He also accused Trump of threatening to assassinate him, even though Trump did no such thing.

 

Trump threatened to build upon sweeping economic sanctions that the US slapped on Venezuela last month if Maduro "persists on a path to impose authoritarian rule."

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.19.17, 23:51