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December 19, 2014

Obama Signs Sanctions Bills on Venezuela, Russia 
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President Obama has signed a new measure allowing him to impose
sanctions on Venezuelan officials involved in a crackdown on
anti-government protesters. The law lets Obama deny visas and freeze
assets of those accused in the violence earlier this year, which left
dozens of people dead from both sides of Venezuela’s political divide.
Obama has also signed a measure allowing new sanctions against Russia,
but says he does not plan to impose them yet.

 

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