The Trump administration sanctioned six Venezuelan security officials for alleged involvement in stopping humanitarian aid convoys from entering the country.
“We are sanctioning members of Maduro’s security forces in response to the reprehensible violence, tragic deaths, and unconscionable torching of food and medicine destined for sick and starving Venezuelans,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
The notice also sanctioned Jose Miguel Dominguez Ramirez, identified as the chief commissioner in Tachira state for President Nicolas Maduro’s special police unit, the Fuerza de Acciones Especiales, and Cristhiam Abelardo Morales Zambrano, director of Venezuela’s Bolivaran National Police.