Venezuela to take US over illegal sanctions to International Criminal Court

The Venezuelan government has vowed to take the United States to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to new illegal sanctions imposed by Washington on the Latin American country.

According to reports, the administration in Washington introduced illegal sanctions on Thursday that targeted Mexican companies and individuals for allegedly attempting to evade US restrictions on Venezuela's oil sector.

“Washington continues to narrow the circle around Venezuela. They [the United States] believe that we cannot export oil and the Venezuelan people are left without food products, medicines, and petrol,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza wrote on his Twitter page later in the day.

“The UN multipolar system must respond. We will go the International Criminal Court over this case,” he added.

Iran, which is also under harsh illegal sanctions imposed by the US regime, opened a case at the Hague-based court in 2018, calling on the organization to suspend unilateral sanctions.

The sanctions, which include the illegal confiscation of Venezuelan assets abroad and an economic blockade, have caused enormous suffering for millions of people in the country.

In yet another show of animosity toward the government in Caracas, a group of US-backed mercenaries attempted to intrude into the northern Venezuelan state of La Guaira on speedboats last month, but the country’s military foiled the attack, killing eight of the armed men and arresting several others.

One of the two US citizens arrested during the marine incursion said in a public interrogation on Venezuelan TV that the purpose of the military operation had been to seize an airport in Caracas, kidnap Maduro, and take him to the US.

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