Photo courtesy of Fuerzas Armadas de Nicaragua Nicolás Maduro has stepped up his defiant rhetoric against the United States while President Trump has deployed U.S. ships and military personnel to the region and continues to carry out strikes on narco-boats. Across Latin America, many countries have either distanced themselves from Venezuela or openly backed the United States, leaving Nicolás Maduro with few remaining allies. The governments still aligned with Caracas are neither powerful nor influential, and even Venezuela’s two most important partners, Russia and China, have offered little meaningful support as U.S. pressure mounts. Russia and China were once Maduro’s strongest external backers, supplying weapons, loans, training, and political cover. Now both are pulling back as they confront their own economic and military constraints. Maduro…
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