Trump v the troika of tyranny

摘要

JUAN GUAIDO, recognised as Venezuela's interim president by the United States and more than 50 other countries, has called for the country's biggest-ever street protests on May 1st. So far, neither mass demonstrations nor economic miseries have been able to dislodge the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. Now President Donald Trump is adding an extra weapon: lawsuits directed at Cuba, Mr Maduro's main supporter. From May 2nd the way will be open for a flood of them: Mr Trump has decided to let American citizens seek damages against foreign companies that are using properties seized after the 1959 revolution. The move is part of a raft of measures meant to help topple the "troika of tyranny", as John Bolton, Mr Trump's national security adviser, calls the left-wing regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.