Heraldo Muñoz, Chile's foreign minister, has stated that his country rejects the threat of a military intervention in Venezuela after US President Donald Trump said he does not rule out a "military option" in the Latin American country.
"Reiterating all the terms of the Lima Declaration on Venezuela, the Government of Chile rejects the threat of military intervention in Venezuela," the chancellor wrote in his Twitter account referring to the statement in which representatives of 17 countries in the region Condemned the rupture of democratic order in Venezuela due to the convening of the Constituent Assembly.
This Friday, Trump said that Washington handles "many options" regarding the situation in Venezuela and said that "I do not rule out a military option" in the country. "We have troops all over the world, in very, very distant places," and Venezuela "is not far away," the president recalled.
Several hours later, Trump refused to hold a telephone conversation with Nicolas Maduro because of US refusal. Regarding the process of formation of the Constituent Assembly of Venezuela.
On July 26, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions against 13 senior Venezuelan government officials, military personnel and Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
A few days later, that US agency announced that Washington also sanctioned the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, with the blockade of all assets that are or may be under US jurisdiction and prohibited US citizens from entering into any agreement with that agent.
On Wednesday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is part of the US Treasury Department, has included eight other Venezuelan officials, including Adán, in its list of Specially Designated Persons (SDN) Coromoto Chávez, brother of the late president Hugo Chavez.