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Trump Escalates Pressure on Venezuela, but Endgame Is Unclear

President Trump’s aides have provided conflicting accounts of what, exactly, they are seeking to achieve, as America’s largest aircraft carrier heads toward the Caribbean region.

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“Either Trump is going to win or Maduro is going to win,” said Elliott Abrams, Mr. Trump’s special adviser on Venezuela in the first administration, and now a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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