WASHINGTON, D.C.: Facing a crisis in Venezuela, US President Donald Trump has threatened to inflict “swift and strong” economic sanctions unless President Nicolas Maduro backs away from a plan to rewrite that nation’s constitution.

But the American President seems sure to face a backlash from Caracas, where charges of US “imperialism” have been the socialist government’s favorite retort to pressure from the North.

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