Trump calls for full restoration of democracy, political freedoms in Venezuela

President Donald Trump said on Monday he wanted democracy restored soon in Venezuela and warned that the United States might take additional measures to apply pressure on the oil-producing nation. At a dinner with Latin American leaders on the fringes of the UN General Assembly, Trump said the Venezuelan people were starving and their country, once one of the wealthiest, was collapsing. Brazilian President Michel Temer told reporters afterwards that all present at the dinner agreed on the need to ramp up international pressure on the Socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro but without intervening directly in Venezuela. More…