US targets Venezuela foreign minister

摘要

The US Treasury Department today imposed sanctions on Venezuelan foreign minister Jorge Arreaza,who until recently was the primary point of contact with President Nicolas Maduro's government.”Arreaza is at the forefront of the former Maduro regime’s attempts within the international community to thwart the democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people,”the State Department said.Arreaza had been the only high-ranking Maduro government official who was left off the US sanctions list.He led talks with US government officials in January and February even after Washington officially recognized Venezuelan National Assembly speaker Juan Guaido as the country's interim leader.