US President Donald Trump has ordered a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela in what he’s called a response to drug smuggling and human trafficking. The Venezuelan government has labelled the move as “warmongering threats”. Brian Fonseca from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, tells The World the US is capable of implementing a blockade of this magnitude.
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