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February 19, 2019

President Maduro Fires Back at Trump Attacks on Socialism
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Venezuelan President Maduro responded to Trump's remarks in a televised
address.

President Nicolás Maduro: "Today Donald Trump was in Miami with a tired
rhetoric, questioning the right of our country to adopt the ideas of
human, Christian socialism, our socialism, just like a Nazi-style speech
to prohibit ideologies."

This comes as a new book out today by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
Mc Cabe reveals Trump privately discussed going to war with Venezuela in
2017. Mc Cabe writes, "Then the president talked about Venezuela. That's
the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that
oil and they're right on our back door."


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