Washington: The tension in the Middle East is not over yet and the tension between America and Venezuela has now reached its peak. Meanwhile, America has dropped the bomb of sanctions on Venezuela. America has seized the private jet of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The ship has been seized in the Dominican Republic. The ship has been seized after determining that its purchase is a violation of American sanctions apart from other criminal issues.
CNN reports that this is the latest dispute in the long-frozen relations between the US and Venezuela. Its seizure in the Dominican Republic is a sign that the US is continuing to investigate what it considers to be corrupt practices by the Venezuelan government.
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One of the US officials told CNN that “this sends a message to the top. There is no argument to be made about seizing a foreign head of state’s plane in criminal cases. We are sending a clear message here: no one is above the law, no one is beyond the reach of US sanctions.” Officials have described the plane as Venezuela’s equivalent of Air Force One and it has been used on Maduro’s previous state trips around the world.
Officials have described the plane as Venezuela’s equivalent of Air Force One and it has been photographed on previous state trips by Maduro around the world. Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader said the plane seized by the US on Monday was not registered in the name of the Venezuelan government but in the name of “an individual.”