Trump is reportedly getting ready to put Venezuela on the state sponsors of terror list

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• The Trump administration is reportedly considering naming Venezuela a state sponsor of terror.
• The designation would put Venezuela alongside countries like Iran and North Korea.
• But applying the label may hinder efforts to help Venezuelans, millions of whom have fled their country.

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to escalate its campaign to isolate and pressure the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela by adding the government to the US’s state sponsors of terror list, according to The Washington Post.

Countries on the list have been found by the US secretary of state “to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.”

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