Officials keep talking about intervening in Venezuela, and it’s drawing an ominous comparison

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• Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in taking military action in Venezuela.
• Experts and officials from around the region have rebuffed such action, with some comparing it to the invasion of Iraq.
• But others have held out military action, as part of a collective response, as an option of last resort.

President Donald Trump’s unexpected declaration in August 2017 that he was “not going to rule out a military option” in Venezuela earned swift rebuke both inside and outside the US.

But in the year since the US has kept pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government, punishing dozens of officials with sanctions but sparing others in a gambit to stoke tensions in Caracas.

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