Riyaz Patel
Venezuela’s vice president Delcy Rodriguez says the Trump administration’s sweeping economic embargo against Venezuela in its efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro constitute “the most grotesque and shameless sacking in international relations’ modern history.”
Donald Trump’s executive order declared all Venezuelan state assets in the US “blocked,” prohibiting them from being “transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in” unless specific exemptions are issued by the Treasury Department.
“The US has to understand once and for all that they aren’t the owners of the world, Rodriguez said, denouncing the move as form of “economic and political terrorism.”
All transactions with Venezuelan state entities are likewise forbidden.
US national security adviser John Bolton, addressing a summit on Venezuela in the Peruvian capital Lima, emphasized that tougher international action was needed to speed up a transition of power in the country.
In New York, Venezuela’s Permanent Representative to the UN
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