United States and Venezuela : Trump threatens to Maduro's government with tougher sanctions

US President Donald Trump has threatened the Venezuelan leadership of the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, with further, harsher sanctions. "We have not yet imposed the toughest sanctions," Trump said on Tuesday at a joint press conference with the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Washington. "We can still be significantly harder." The US government took the Venezuelan leadership on Tuesday with further sanctions and took this time the gold sector into the visor. Trump and Bolsonaro gifts at their joint appearance emphasizes closely.

In Venezuela rages on for weeks, a power struggle between the government and the Opposition. Juan Guaidó, chief of the disempowered Parliament, had declared at the end of January to the interim President, and Maduro so openly challenged. Many countries, including the United States and Brazil, have recognised Guaidó as the rightful interim President. The US government has been trying for weeks to push Maduro to retreat, especially through economic pressure. The Ministry of Finance imposed diverse sanctions against the environment of Maduro, against the important Oil sector of the country.

Trump repeated that "All options are open"

On Tuesday, the United States continued to list the in Gold, which is active state mining company CVG (Compania General de lapdance de Venezuela) and its President on the sanction, such as the Ministry of Finance announced. Assets of the company and its bosses in the U.S. are frozen and transactions with them. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin accused Maduro and the environment, they plundered the wealth and natural resources of Venezuela on reckless manner, in order to enrich themselves.

On the renewed demand, whether a US military Intervention in Venezuela is conceivable, Trump said on Tuesday for the umpteenth Time: "All options are open." He added: "We will see what happens." The development in Venezuela is very sad to look at. It was a very rich country, but under Maduro that there was no food, no water, no electricity.

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Bolsonaro said with a view to a possible military Intervention, this is a strategic question that will not be discussed in Public.

The Venezuelan government dismissed the threats from Washington. "Without a doubt, these two presidents for dangerous ideas for the peoples of the Region, the peace and global security," it said in a statement the Ministry of foreign Affairs. "No neo-fascist Alliance will be able to break the will of the independent and sovereign Venezuelan people, or the success of the attempt, to sow the seeds of hatred in our America."

Bolsonaro: "I have received the USA always

" admired The new, right-wing conservative President of Brazil has a tropical because of its populist and Parts of confrontational Statements in the media, the nickname "the-Trump". For his first bilateral visit abroad since his inauguration to the beginning of the year Bolsonaro chose pointedly to the USA as a destination. "I have always admired the United States," he said in Washington. This visit to suggest a new Chapter in the relations between the two countries.

Trump spoke with emphasized warm words. "We have a lot of similar point of view," he said. The United States and Brazil are the biggest democracies, and largest economies on the American continent. Both countries now had the historic opportunity to establish even greater ties.

Trump brought up the possibility of the accession of Brazil to the Nato into the game. He intended the South American country as a major Non-Nato ally to be classified, said Trump in the rose garden of the White house. There may also be a Nato-membership would be conceivable. To do this, many conversations are still necessary. Bolsonaro said that military cooperation with the United States had been expanded. Trump also mentioned a space station of the future, from the near-Equatorial Brazil from space flights possible.

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Trump and Bolsonaro are both the most populist of the right-wing political edge. You want to take advantage of the situation and the relations between their two countries on a new footing. In the recent time had been in Brazil governments in Power that were set in the USA to critical. (dpa)