Maduro’s son target of US sanctions

The Trump administration is slapping economic sanctions against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s son in its latest effort to unseat the South American country’s socialist regime.

Nicolás Maduro Guerra heads the Corps of the Special Inspectors of the Presidency and is a member of the pro-government National Constituent Assembly.

A senior administration official told reporters Friday that the sanctions against Maduro Guerra are part of ongoing efforts to root out examples of corruption throughout the Caracas government. The officials said the administration will target those institutions and clamp down on their “corrupt finances.”

“The point that we’re trying to make is that Maduro’s corruption is so endemic throughout the entire region and all of the institutions in Venezuela, largely with the exception of the National Assembly, that we are going to broadly, as we can find all examples of corruption and choking some of those corrupt finances.”

Via NPR