Trump is choking off oil imports to the communist nation, plunging it into a crisis not seen since the fall of USSR Trump is choking off oil imports to the communist nation, plunging it into a crisis not seen since the fall of USSR O n 29 January this year, after the kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro but before the assassination of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, President Trump turned his attention to another country. He issued an executive order declaring a national emergency against the