US urges Americans to avoid going to Venezuela | World

"Do not travel to Venezuela because of crimes, social unrest, poor health infrastructure and arbitrary arrests and detentions of US citizens," warned the state department.

This warning comes as international pressure against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, who faces the recognition by the United States and other countries, of the opponent Juan Guaidó as self-proclaimed president acting. Earlier on Tuesday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was considering "additional sanctions" to put pressure on the Maduro government, while the state department announced that "the government is not going to get the job done. he would entrust Guaido with controlling the accounts in the United States. .

"We are still considering additional sanctions to ensure the protection of the country's badets to the Venezuelan people," said Mnuchin in an interview with Fox, a day after Washington's announcement of sanctions against the oil company PDVSA , Venezuela's main source of revenue, to put pressure on Nicolás Maduro's government

Sanction comes at a time when the country and PDVSA are in default and their oil production, at the lowest level of the last three decades , reaches 1.3 million barrels a day.

"There is no doubt that we are trying to cut the funds of the regime that should not be in power," Mnuchin said.

The Treasury Department announced last week that it had signed a control order in Guaido. Venezuela's accounts in the United States.

"This certification will help the legitimate government of Venezuela to protect these badets for the benefit of the Venezuelan people," said US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino in a statement.