Cracks appear in U.S. bipartisan unity on Venezuela

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro walks next to Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez and Remigio Ceballos, Strategic Operational Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, during a ceremony at a military base in Caracas, Venezuela May 2, 2019. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's tough approach to Venezuela has won broad support from both Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress, but this rare display of bipartisan consensus is starting to show signs of strain as the crisis in the OPEC nation drags on.

Members of both parties remain in agreement that Venezuela's socialist president Nicolas Maduro must go. They credit the Trump administration for helping to forge an international coalition that recognised opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's interim president.