Venezuela's authoritarian President, Nicolás Maduro, said president Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for a "forever war" against the country and accused the United States of fabricating drug-trafficking allegations that he compared to Washington's discredited claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The comments were made during a televised interview recorded on New Year's Eve with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet and filmed as Maduro drove through Caracas.
