Trump has blocked all assets of Venezuela in the United States | Chronic

To a high impact this Monday evening, the President of the United States Donald Trump order. freeze all Venezuelan government badets in the United States. This is a new attack on the government of Nicolás Maduro, which the US president is trying to destabilize.

The measure affects the badets and interests of the Venezuelan government in the United States and these can not be transferred or withdrawn.

"I decided that it was necessary to block the properties of the Venezuelan government because of the continuation of the usurpation of power by the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro ", Trump said in a letter to the leader of the House of Representatives, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi The Wall Street Journal reported that it was the first time that Washington had applied this measure against a government of the Western Hemisphere for more than 30 years and that it imposed restrictions similar to those applied to the North Korea, to Iran, Syria and Cuba.

The measure affects the badets and interests of the Venezuelan government in the United States and these can not be transferred or withdrawn. Transactions with Venezuelan authorities whose badets are blocked are also prohibited. Previous sanctions had targeted the oil industry, the main source of foreign exchange for exports.

This new attack has not surprised by surprise in Venezuela since last Thursday, Nicolás Maduro had alerted his supporters to the possibility that the United States impose a blockade in Venezuela.