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US hits ‘dictator’ Maduro with sanctions over disputed Venezuela vote
9 years agoHandout picture released by the presidency of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) talking along the head of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) Tibisay Lucena during a meeting in Caracas on July 31, 2017. Venezuela's attorney general Luisa Ortega, a vocal dissenter in President Nicolas Maduro's government, said Monday she will not recognize a new assembly voted in on the weekend, calling it an expression of "dictatorial ambition." HO / Presidency / AFP
The US measures were unusual in that they targeted a sitting head of state, but their reach was mostly symbolic, freezing any US assets Maduro might have and banning people under US jurisdiction from dealing with him.
