Economics
U.S. Readies Sanctions Against Top Venezuelans
- Targets said to include defense minister, Maduro allies
- Rubio, others briefed on broader slate of potential measures
Trump Says Venezuela Presents a 'Horrible Problem'
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The U.S. is poised to impose sanctions on Venezuela’s defense minister and several other top officials for human-rights violations, according to people with knowledge of the plan, who added that the action was one of several under consideration by the Trump administration against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
The U.S. Treasury could announce the sanctions, which would freeze the officials out of the U.S. financial system, as soon as Tuesday, the people said. Among those targeted would be Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, 54, and Diosdado Cabello, 54, a longtime ally of late President Hugo Chavez and power broker within the ruling Socialist party, they said.