Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday he rejected his US counterpart Donald Trump’s warning to impose blockade on Caracas, stressing that Venezuela’s seas would remain “free and independent”. In remarks cited by Reuters, Maduro said he had requested Venezuela’s Envoy to the UN to denounce Trump’s “illegal” blockade threat at ...
The US Treasury placed four senior Venezuelan military intelligence officials on its sanctions blacklist Friday. Division General Rafael Ramon Blanco Marrero, Colonel Hannover Esteban Guerrero Mijares, Major Alexander Enrique Granko Arteaga and Colonel Rafael Antonio Franco Quintero are officials of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), which was sanctioned ...
