Venezuela condemned US threats to impose a naval blockade against the country before the UN Security Council, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Tuesday.
“We condemned the US government before the Security Council and the UN Secretary-General for the criminal blockade and threats to impose a sea blockade and to use force against the people of Venezuela,” the minister wrote on Twitter.
Venezuela has been suffering a humanitarian and political crisis that intensified in January when US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido illegally declared himself the country’s interim president after disputing President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election.