{"id":47648,"date":"2019-08-06T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47648"},"modified":"2019-08-06T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:51:10","slug":"trump-imposes-total-economic-embargo-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47648","title":{"rendered":"Trump Imposes Total Economic Embargo On Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trump Imposes Total Economic Embargo On Venezuela<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Late Monday President Trump signed an executive order imposing a full economic embargo<\/a> against Venezuela after a week ago the White House began signaling it could seek to “quarantine” and fully “blockade”<\/a> the Maduro regime if the president doesn’t immediately hand over power of his own accord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The executive order\u00a0freezes all government assets in the United States and prohibits all transactions by any Venezuelan officials<\/strong>, in what constitutes the first major expansion of sanctions targeting a nation in the western hemisphere in over three decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The order focuses on human rights abuses and\u00a0Maduro\u2019s continued \u201cusurpation\u201d of power\u00a0as necessary to enact the full embargo, and places the Latin American country\u00a0on par with Cuba, Syria, Iran and North Korea<\/strong>. Though Trump recently signaled he was “bored” with meddling in Venezuela after a failed military coup earlier this year, the executive order is the latest in a string of measures intent on regime change.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States … are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in,\u201d the executive order says. Americans are further prevented from doing business with Venezuela’s government or officials, effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it falls short of an outright trade embargo, it does dramatically escalate US efforts to force a Maduro exit in favor of US-backed opposition leader and self-proclaimed “interim president” Juan Guaido. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Via The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A recent Bloomberg <\/em>report<\/a> also indicated Trump admin discussions have involved the possibility of imposing a complete blockade on the country by sea, enforced by US Navy ships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump Imposes Total Economic Embargo On Venezuela Late Monday President Trump signed an executive order imposing a full economic embargo against Venezuela after a week ago the White House began signaling it could seek to “quarantine” and fully “blockade” the Maduro regime if the president doesn’t immediately hand over power of his own accord.  The executive order\u00a0freezes all government assets in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17013,7844,26459,379,2422,827,851],"class_list":["post-47648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-blockade","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-embargo","tag-government","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47649,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47648\/revisions\/47649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}