Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term despite widespread international condemnation of the election as fraudulent. The US, EU, and UK imposed fresh sanctions on top Venezuelan officials, while Maduro tightened security measures for the inauguration ceremony.
The US, the EU and the UK imposed fresh sanctions on top Venezuela n officials on Friday as President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term after claiming a victory the west condemned as fraudulent. Maduro imposed a tight security clampdown for Friday’s ceremony, closing Venezuela ’s land border with Colombia, suspending flights to and from its neighbour and stationing troops and police throughout the capital of his oil-rich nation to prevent protests.
Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, fired a parting shot at the Biden administration in his speech: “We say to the outgoing North American government: ‘We won, they couldn’t defeat us.’” Washington again stopped short of suspending licences that grant Chevron and other US and European oil companies exemption from US oil sanctions on Venezuela, providing crucial revenues to Maduro’s government.
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