How a Trump Tweet Upended My Country's Politics
The American president stirs up the Venezuelan opposition.
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Venezuelans have been scratching their heads, wondering how U.S. policy toward their country might be transformed under his administration. Up until this week, we had precious little to go on. Trump the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during the campaign in South Florida, which many read as mere pandering for the Venezuelan American vote. His aides’ Russian entanglements, meanwhile, caused suspicion about his true intentions: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s intimate associate in Russia, Rosneft chairman Igor Sechin, is closely linked to Maduro,and has deepenergy in Venezuela
