Washington gives Guaidó $52M in funding, slaps Venezuela with new sanctions
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz / September 27, 2019 / 3 min readSyndicated
Self-proclaimed “Interim President” Juan Guaido and the Venezuelan opposition have been given US $52 million by the Trump administration. According to a statement from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the funding will be destined for independent media, civil society, the health sector and the opposition-controlled National Assembly. The new aid package dovetails with a fresh round of US sanctions against Venezuela’s oil sector.