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800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... US issues new sanctions on Maduro allies in Venezuela over fraudulent elections. Laura Kelly. November 27, 2024 at 11:25 AM.
However, there are questions about the effectiveness of such individual sanctions, given that Washington has already targeted more than 140 Venezuelan officials, including Maduro himself in 2017 ...
In September, the U.S. government imposed sanctions against 16 allies of Maduro, accusing them of obstructing the vote and carrying out human rights abuses. The effect of the individual sanctions and visa restrictions announced Wednesday is unclear. Previously punished Maduro loyalists still hold powerful in Venezuela’s government.
Venezuela’s government released a statement that characterized the latest set of sanctions as a “rude act that seeks to ingratiate itself with a political class that has resorted to fascist and violent practices to overthrow, without success,” Maduro. A joint statement from more than 50 countries that was delivered Thursday at the United ...
The U.S. in April reimposed some oil sanctions, accusing Maduro of reneging on electoral commitments, and it has enforced numerous individual sanctions in the last five years, including on CNE ...
Washington, which rejected Maduro's 2018 reelection as a sham, broadly eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry last October in response to a deal between Maduro and opposition parties.
An April 2019 communication from the U.S. State Department highlighted the 2017 National Assembly investigation finding that the government paid US$42 for food boxes that cost under US$13, and that "Maduro's inner circle kept the difference, which totaled more than $200 million dollars in at least one case", adding that food boxes were ...
OPEC-member Venezuela is one of Latin America's major oil producing countries, but its crude output has fallen sharply during Maduro's more than decade in power, mostly due to under-investment as ...