Explainer: U.S. sanctions and Venezuela's trade and oil industry partners
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HOUSTON/CARACAS (Reuters) - The United States last week imposed a sweeping freeze on Venezuelan government assets in U.S. territory and threatened to sanction any company that works with socialist President Nicolas Maduro's government, as the Trump administration ratcheted up its bid to force Maduro out. In January the United States imposed sanctions on Venezuela's most important global business - producing and selling crude oil, which accounts for more than 95 percent of the country's export..