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Venezuela Sanctions: What U.S. Citizens With Cryptocurrency Need To Know
On February 18, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced how the U. S. sanctioned Rosneft Trading S. A., a Swiss-incorporated, Russian-owned oil brokerage firm, for operating in Venezuela’s oil sector. Since then, headlines in the news showcase the Trump Administration discussing ways it may increase the pressure on the Maduro regime in Venezuela through economic sanctions. As the world witnesses the U.S. using its traditional role of economic sanctions to affect a regime change in the interest of spreading democracy and freedom, cryptocurrencies have added a curve ball for the U.S. with respect to its ... (full story)
