State Department Move Increases Pressure On Venezuela's Maduro

摘要

WASHINGTON-The Trump administration in August intensified efforts to isolate the Venezuelan government and remove Nicolas Maduro from power, which included an executive order blocking all property and interests in property of the Venezuelan government in the United States. According to press accounts, the EO prevents the Maduro regime's international creditors from seizing Citgo, the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's national oil company. An Aug. 6 announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo about the EO says it is designed to directly target Maduro's regime and those who support it, while exempting transactions related to humanitarian activity, including the provision of articles such as food, clothing and medicine intended to relieve human suffering.