Economic implications of Maduro ouster in Venezuela are broad and deep

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President Donald Trump surprised the world by ordering airstrikes in Venezuela and extracting strongman Nicolas Maduro from the country to stand trial in the United States. But beyond the geopolitical shock, the operation’s economic ramifications are just beginning to unfold, across the Western Hemisphere and globally.

Maduro, 63, was arrested in the early morning hours of Jan. 3. While the U.S. has accused him of funneling narcotics into the U.S., the South American nation has the largest oil reserves in the world. And questions about what will come of that oil now that he has been deposed are swirling.

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