White House order for military focus on Venezuela’s oil blockade – Mehr News Agency | RCO News Agency

According to Mehr news agency, citing Al Jazeera, Reuters news agency quoted an American official as saying that the White House has ordered military forces to focus on the blockade against Venezuela’s oil in the next two mohs.

The official added: Military options are still on the table regarding Venezuela, but the curre focus is on increasing economic pressure.

U.S.-Venezuela relations have been tense in rece years with Washington’s tightening of unilateral sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s governme, especially in the fields of energy and maritime transportation. Caracas considered these measures as an example of economic blockade and violation of iernational law and has repeatedly protested against the seizure of ships and the growing pressure of the United States.

According to the analysts of the issues between the iernationalThe goal of the United States in iensifying these pressures and unilateral sanctions is to increase political and economic pressure to weaken the governme of Nicolás Maduro and force Caracas to change its direction in its domestic and foreign policies.