EU confirms new sanctions on seven senior Venezuela officials

While the EU already has an arms embargo in place on Venezuela, it has not considered imposing an oil embargo or blacklisting Maduro himself. “Today the European Union has again shown irrefutable evidence of its notable subordination to the racist government of (U.S. President) Donald Trump,” Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “These decisions show an interventionist and erroneous policy toward our country and are reminiscent of the colonial manoeuvres of outdated empires.”More…