In Venezuela, the real challenges for the US are just beginning (Lester Munson – ASPI The Strategist)

US President Donald Trump’s removal of Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela on 3 January has provided the opportunity to show that his national security approach is superior to his predecessors’.

Venezuela has been a festering sore for nearly three decades. Authoritarian, socialist rule under Hugo Chavez and Maduro turned what should have been one of the world’s most prosperous nations into a corrupt, poverty-ridden, refugee-producing, drug-trafficking epicentre for Chinese, Russian and terrorist influence in Latin America.

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