US increases the pressure on Venezuela

摘要

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump this week issued an executive order to block the property and interests of the Venezuelan government in the US, further ratcheting up pressure on the already embattled regime of Nicolas Maduro and adding to previously imposed sanctions. The White House said the move will restrict entry into the US of people who are sanctioned or seek to undermine the government of self-declared leader Juan Guaido, who has drawn widespread backing from international governments but failed to dislodge Madu-ro's hold on power. Guaido, who leads the national assembly, took on the title of interim president on the basis of a constitutional measure that allows a path to new elections if a presidential election is illegitimate, which his supporters contend to be the case for Madura's latest term.