New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to cut off Venezuelan oil sales could devastate a country already wrangling with years of spiraling crises.

The prospect added to Venezuelans' collective anxiety over their country's future on Wednesday. But after years of political, social and economic challenges, Venezuelans also treated the threat like another inconvenience - even when it could bring back the shortages of food, gasoline and other goods that defined the country over the last decade.

"Well, we've already had so many crises, shortages of so many things - food, gasoline - that one more . well, one doesn't worry anymore," Milagro Viana said while waiting to catch a bus in Caracas, the country's capital.

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