LatinNews Daily - 29 May 2018

Venezuela: The foreign ministers from the European Union (EU) have agreed that the EU should impose new economic sanctions on the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolás Maduro as a way to pressure it into finding a solution to the country’s political, economic, and social crisis. After taking part in a meeting with his 27 colleagues, Spain’s foreign minister Alfonso Dastis said that the ministers had agreed that the EU should impose new sanctions on Maduro government officials to “increase the pressure” on the Maduro government to find an “authentically democratic” way out of the crisis and for it to stop its “drift towards authoritarianism”. However, Dastis did not reveal the extent of the new sanctions agreed by the EU ministers and how many Venezuelan government officials it might affect. Back in January the EU sanctioned seven high-ranking Maduro government officials and froze all their assets held in Europe.

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