Venezuela's Maduro ready to declare state of emergency if US attacks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Earlier in the day, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez told foreign diplomats that Maduro had signed a decree giving himself "special powers" as head of state to act in matters of defence and security in the event the US "dares to attack our homeland".
47% : Maduro rejected US claims that Venezuela played a big role in drug trafficking, and told Trump he wanted the relationship between the two countries to be "historic and peaceful".
26% : Trump has warned that Venezuela will pay an "incalculable" price if the South American country does not take back immigrants whom the US president described as "prisoners" and "people from mental institutions".
20% : Trump has publicly claimed several times that the US is engaged in an anti-drug operation to stem the flow of illegal narcotics into the country, even though data from both the United Nations and the US suggest that Venezuela is not a major source of cocaine coming into the US.

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