Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami
proclaimed his innocence and slammed a decision earlier this month by the U.S.
Treasury to impose sanctions on him due to suspected narco trafficking in a
full page advertisement published Wednesday in the New York Times. El Aissami,
who just a week ago became one of the most-senior government leaders of any
country added by the Treasury Department to a list of foreign nationals subject
to economic sanctions under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, said
that the case against him lacked evidence and accused “political sectors,
lobbyists and stakeholders” of trying to deceive Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin in an attempt to prevent the two countries from trying to improve their
historically tense relationship. More…
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