US EditionTrump Warns Foreign Leader Against ‘Playing Tough’ as US Escalates Pressure Campaign
Venezuela’s National Assembly approved a law imposing up to 20 years in prison for support of U.S. oil blockade enforcement amid escalating U.S. naval seizures, officials said.
- Dec 23- Venezuela's ruling-party controlled National Assembly unanimously approved a law allowing prison terms up to 20 years for promoting or financing piracy, blockades, or other international crimes, introduced by pro-government lawmaker Giuseppe Alessandrello.
- After U.S. seizures this month, including the Dec. 10 Skipper seizure with U.S. Navy help, the U.S. declared a "total and complete blockade" and the U.S. Coast Guard pursued shadow fleet vessels.
- President Trump, flanked by Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, warned Maduro Monday, announcing a new Navy warship as the Coast Guard tracked a sanctioned tanker for a second day.
- National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez said the bill will be sent to the executive and take effect once published in the Official Gazette, while Russia pledged "full support" for Venezuela and began evacuating diplomats' families.
- The escalation, which began in September, deployed the largest United States military presence in the Caribbean in more than 60 years and risks worsening fuel shortages in Cuba given Venezuela production of one million barrels per day.
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The Imperialist Threat and the Possible Courses of the Conflict
As if they were scripts written by Warren Ellis – The Authority, Transmetropolitan, Planetary – in which exaggerated arguments abound, during the last four months we have witnessed a disproportionate media and military offensive against Venezuelan sovereignty. The double standard of the US administration has gone from buying Venezuelan oil – under neocolonial commercial conditions, as a result of the sanctions imposed by themselves and the compl…
Ambassador Samuel Moncada stated that Donald Trump's threat of blockade is the confession of a crime "with which the President of the United States intends to return the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony in Venezuela."
The National Assembly of Venezuela, controlled by the government party, adopted Tuesday, by a unanimous vote, a bill which provides for sentences of up to 20 years in prison for anyone who promotes or finance...
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