CARACAS: The United States hit Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with direct sanctions on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) over a disputed and deadly weekend vote, calling him a “dictator,” while the leader refused to heed what he slammed as “imperial orders.”
The 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.
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