The Trump administration announced Friday it is revoking the visas of 49 Maduro-aligned officials and their families and sanctioning several top military and security officials, part of a major U.S. campaign to push contested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. “I can’t predict the day Maduro falls and leaves Venezuela,” said Elliott Abrams, the State Department’s special representative for Venezuela, in an interview with Fox News. Russia’s government also claims the U.S. may use military force in Venezuela. “I don’t want to telegraph our punches to the regime,” Abrams said, though he stresses the U.S. is pursuing a peaceful transition of power in Venezuela. “The people who are talking about an American military action are the regime or the Russians.

Source: Fox News March 02, 2019 00:22 UTC