{"id":399275,"date":"2019-03-13T06:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-to-slap-very-significant-sanctions-on-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T06:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:27:45","slug":"presstv-us-to-slap-very-significant-sanctions-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-to-slap-very-significant-sanctions-on-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US to slap \u2018very significant\u2019 sanctions on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>The United States says it is planning to impose \u201cvery significant additional sanctions\u201d against financial institutions in Venezuela in the coming days, a move regarded as part of efforts to undermine the democratically-elected government in Caracas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Elliott Abrams, the US special envoy for Venezuela, said at a press briefing in the US State Department on Tuesday that the sanctions would target financial institutions doing business with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The US special envoy told reporters that Washington was also preparing to withdraw more US visas from Venezuelan officials with close ties to the 56-year-old socialist leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Abrams said Washington was in talks with other countries about security arrangements for the US Embassy after it recalled remaining diplomats from the Latin American country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Caracas had ordered American diplomats to leave Venezuela within 72 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The United States has&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/03\/13\/590890\/US-significant-additional-sanctions-Venezuela\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States says it is planning to impose \u201cvery significant additional sanctions\u201d against financial institutions in Venezuela in the coming days, a move regarded as part of efforts to undermine the democratically-elected government in Caracas. Elliott Abrams, the US special envoy for Venezuela, said at a press briefing in the US State Department on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}