{"id":130823,"date":"2017-11-13T07:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130823"},"modified":"2017-11-13T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:22:56","slug":"eu-adopts-sanctions-against-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/13\/eu-adopts-sanctions-against-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"EU adopts sanctions against Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_130824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130824\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/8111614044_0b5d6b3d51_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130824\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/8111614044_0b5d6b3d51_z.jpg\" alt=\"The European Union is banning arms sales to Venezuela and setting up a system for asset freezes and travel restrictions on some Venezuelan officials to ramp up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo by Thomas Quine\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/8111614044_0b5d6b3d51_z.jpg 428w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/8111614044_0b5d6b3d51_z-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The European Union is banning arms sales to Venezuela and setting up a system for asset freezes and travel restrictions on some Venezuelan officials to ramp up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinet\/8111614044\/in\/photolist-dmN9fy-RPixCX-Z7pySC-V2gWfq-XvLSMJ-YtM56v-Sko8bf-UofSbt-XhRsNY-Z7SUDM-UK2qUy-jzoQf-YD7EG8-Wofiqc-W1vxW9-Xpf37z-Xu6hR2-XbTTnb-SwvPok-U92XJy-SignXL-VtHTop-Vmwnr4-Y9xDZd-VNMryw-Viohig-Wp9QYD-RSgMgx-V6zSJM-SKcUvs-SrAV2f-X91cM3-qgnrGo-Ui4T2Y-VwkyUv-YRRYBo-Su46ar-jzoQe-YaCH4x-Vn5uJM-VFWSCw-UYLSQa-6KnrKT-rPz9Gw-21tFT4k-Tjxobt-Y6SXzR-VM2wAe-TA8x6L-218k3rw\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinet\/\">Thomas Quine\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BRUSSELS \u2014 The European Union is banning arms sales to Venezuela and setting up a system for asset freezes and travel restrictions on some Venezuelan officials to ramp up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>The EU foreign ministers announced the measures at talks in Brussels on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons ban would stop sales of military equipment that could be used for repression or surveillance of Venezuelans.<\/p>\n<p>The EU said in a statement that the measures can be reversed depending how Maduro reacts to the demands for more democracy in the South American nation.<\/p>\n<p>The United States last Thursday put financial sanctions on another 10 current and former Venezuelan officials over corruption and abuse of power allegations related to Maduro&#8217;s crackdown on the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS \u2014 The European Union is banning arms sales to Venezuela and setting up a system for asset freezes and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":130824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[3103,1242,319],"class_list":["post-130823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-european-union","tag-sanctions","tag-venezuela","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}