Last week, US Special Representative Elliot Abrams said during a press briefing that the US would impose additional major sanctions on Venezuela in the coming days.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s state-run Minerven mining company, the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on its website on Tuesday.
Venezuela has been facing a deep political crisis since the country’s opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president on 23 January. The United States and 54 countries soon recognized Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president.