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Maduro, 62, has been in power since 2013, and the new sanctions come little more than a week before U.S. President Joe Biden will end his term and be succeeded by Donald Trump on Jan. 20.
The Biden administration announced a slew of new sanctions against allies of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in opposition to his claim of election victory, calling his Friday inauguration ...
The sanctions target 21 individuals, including 15 leaders of the Bolivarian National Guard, Bolivarian National Police, the… US issues new sanctions on Maduro allies in Venezuela over fraudulent ...
The U.S. Treasury Department said the Moscow-based bank was an economic lifeline for Maduro's administration. [171] [172] [173] After the detention of Guaidó's chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, in March 2019, the US Treasury Department responded by placing sanctions on the Venezuelan bank BANDES and its subsidiaries.
[92] In January 2019, during the presidential crisis, the United States imposed sanctions on the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA to pressure Maduro to resign. [95] Reuters said the sanctions are expected to reduce Venezuela's ability to purchase food and other imports which could result in further shortages and worsen ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration said on Thursday it was imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to voter fraud in the country's ...
The Trump administration had imposed broad sanctions against the Maduro government, the state oil company PDVSA, the country’s central bank, the gold mining sector and the purchasing of ...
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 ...