Trump has asked the UN Security Council an urgent meeting for Venezuela

American demand was made a few days after the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduroblock the entrance of the vast majority of humanitarian aid sent by countries that do not recognize him as the head of the Caribbean state.

United States leads diplomatic offensive against Maduro and asked, at a meeting of the Lima group in Bogota, that the American countries of the alliance impose sanctions against the Chavez government, such as the freezing of badets of the state oil company Pdvsa, "prohibiting any access to external financing" and giving control of the accounts and badets of the Venezuelan state in each country to the so-called interim president, Juan Guaidó, leader of the National Assembly (parliament) with a majority of opposition.

Guaidó was sworn in on Jan. 23 as acting president of Venezuela on behalf of the National Assembly.

It is not yet known who will represent the United States at the Security Council session, whose timetable and details should define the current presidency of this United Nations body, this month in the hands of Equatorial Guinea.

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, last week visited the UN headquarters to meet with its secretary general, the former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres.

The newspaper L & # 39; universal reported that in the Security Council there is an American project and a Russian project on the Venezuelan situation waiting to be debated.

The US project calls for facilitating international humanitarian aid and organizing short-term free and democratic presidential elections in Venezuela, while the Russian project denounces the threats of the use of force against the Maduro government.