US sanctions Nicolas Maduro’s son

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President Trump is blacklisting the son of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro as part of a flurry of sanctions targeting key loyalists.

“Maduro relies on his son Nicolásito and others close to his authoritarian regime to maintain a stranglehold on the economy and suppress the people of Venezuela,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday. “Treasury will continue to target complicit relatives of illegitimate regime insiders profiting off of Maduro’s corruption.”

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