crisis, as the standoff continues between president nicolas maduro and opposition leaderjuan guaido. the us, together with many other nations, is recognising mr guaido as interim president and vowing to cut off the existing government s source of revenue. that could take the form of further sanctions according to president trump. venezuela already faces various restrictions on accessing us financial markets. but not, so far, on its vital oil industry. oil makes up 95% of venezuela s revenue and the us is the biggest customer. more than half of that revenue, though, goes straight back out again to service debts. venezuelans already face spiralling prices for everyday goods. the international monetary fund predicts inflation will rise to 10 million percent this year. it s already at 1.3 million percent. the government introduced a new currency last year the sovereign bolivar knocking five zeros off the existing currency to mask the effects of inflation. but it has already s
to president neato that the only way we will have that is for mexico to pay for the wall it was impossible for him to go forward. what both sides have done is drawn a line in the sand. a bad move to make between two countries that are physical clea next next to each other and indi visible as a unit. and for understanding a trade we turn to former u.s. trade representative in the obama administration michael froman. at the moment we are creating a void that china is all too willing to step in to and to film and we see this happening. we saw it happening as you mentioned in daf os. we see it happening across the region where the countries are saying if the u.s. is not going to engage, show leadership as it did in the context of ttp, then we re going to have to line up behind china. we close this evening with richard haass, president on the council of foreign relations, his new book a world in disai ra, american foreign policy and the crieses of the world orld. i think
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to president neato that the only way we will have that is for mexico to pay for the wall it was impossible for him to go forward. what both sides have done is drawn a line in the sand. a bad move to make between two countries that are physical clea next next to each other and indi visible as a unit. and for understanding a trade we turn to former u.s. trade representative in the obama administration michael froman. at the moment we are creating a void that china is all too willing to step in to and to film and we see this happening. we saw it happening as you mentioned in daf os. we see it happening across the region where the countries are saying if the u.s. is not going to engage, show leadership as it did in the context of ttp, then we re going to have to line up behind china. we close this evening with richard haass, president on the council of foreign relations, his new book a world in disai ra, american foreign policy and the crieses of the world orld. i think t
to president neato that the only way we will have that is for mexico to pay for the wall it was impossible for him to go forward. what both sides have done is drawn a line in the sand. a bad move to make between two countries that are physical clea next next to each other and indi visible as a unit. and for understanding a trade we turn to former u.s. trade representative in the obama administration michael froman. at the moment we are creating a void that china is all too willing to step in to and to film and we see this happening. we saw it happening as you mentioned in daf os. we see it happening across the region where the countries are saying if the u.s. is not going to engage, show leadership as it did in the context of ttp, then we re going to have to line up behind china. we close this evening with richard haass, president on the council of foreign relations, his new book a world in disai ra, american foreign policy and the crieses of the world orld. i think t