By Rabia Iclal Turan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Donald Trump tightened his stranglehold on Venuzuela on Wednesday when he announced that the South American country had “agreed” to purchase only US-made products with proceeds from a newly arranged oil deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a post on his social media company Truth Social, Trump said these purchases would include agricultural products, and medicines, medical devices, and equipment to “improve Venezuela\u2019s Electric Grid and Energy Facilities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn other words, Venezuela is committing to doing business with the United States of America as their principal partner \u2013 A wise choice, and a very good thing for the people of Venezuela, and the United States,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, Trump announced that interim authorities in Venezuela had “agreed” to transfer between 30 million and 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US to be sold at market price. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US has maintained a blockade on sanctioned vessels entering and leaving the waters of Venezuela, taking control of at least four vessels carrying oil from the South American country. This forms part of the stranglehold the US has on Venuzuela’s economy as it takes control of that country’s vast oil resources. Trump plans to decide who can buy oil from Venuzuela and control the income derived from those sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The measure has been part of escalating pressure on Venezuela, which came to head on Saturday when US forces launched airstrikes on targets in the northern part of the country, while special operations forces conducted a raid in the capital Caracas to kidnap the country’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the first hearing in their trial on drug- and weapons-related charges, both Maduro and Flores pleaded not guilty to the charges. The US kidnapping of Maduro and his wife has been condemned by many world leaders who say Trump’s actions violate international law. -Anadulo Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following the forced control of that country’s oil revenue, the US has now decided that revenues it approves to give back to the sanctioned country can only be used to purchase good made in America<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,35,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conflict-zones","8":"tag-trump","9":"tag-venenzuela","10":"tag-war-crimes"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}