With strike inside Venezuela, U.S. increases pressure on Maduro regime

For months, the U.S. has built up the Caribbean's largest armada in half-a-century, 30 strikes on what the U.S. calls narco-terrorist drug boats, the latest in the Eastern Pacific just last night, the capture of two sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers and the chasing of a third tanker that today reportedly requested Russian protection. And, today, news the CIA reportedly launched a drone strike along the Venezuelan coast, the reported target, a storage facility operated by the transnational gang Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration connects, without public evidence, to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The economy of Venezuela will get worse and the finances of the Maduro regime will get worse and that will increase public pressure and internal pressure in the regime, that at some point there are either mass demonstrations or somebody in the military acts or the regime basically decides, we don't know how far Trump is willing to go with this.

Author: Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn

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