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Maduro Says Venezuela Will Continue Trading Oil Despite U.S. Blockade, Claims Trump Won't Achieve Regime Change

Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro (Credit: Photo by FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro said the country will continue trading oil despite the U.S.'s recent blockade of sanctioned tankers, adding that President Donald Trump won't achieve his goal of regime change.

"Trade in and out will continue. Our oil and all our natural wealth that by the constitution and Bolivar's legacy belongs to its only legitimate owner, which for centuries and centuries has been our sovereign people of Venezuela," Maduro said on Wednesday.

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