President Trump speaks about the crisis in Venezuela during a visit Monday to Florida International University in Miami, where he warned about the spread of socialism. The Trump administration emboldened Guaidó to declare himself Venezuela’s rightful leader last month and has helped rally international diplomatic support behind him. “The Venezuelan military must allow humanitarian aid to peacefully enter the country. “I think efforts to defuse this, in terms of getting humanitarian aid in, have got to be made. Maduro also claims that the United States wants to get its hands on Venezuela’s large supply of oil, which the Trump administration denies.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2019 00:15 UTC