The executive order, first signed by Obama last year, imposed sanctions on Venezuela.
U.S. President Barack Obama renewed Thursday an executive order issued last March that declared Venezuela “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
The renewal of the decree is valid for one year and was revealed in a letter from Obama to congressional leaders. In the letter, the U.S. president claims that alleged conditions that first prompted the order had “not improved.”
The executive order was first issued by Obama in March 2015 and provoked a storm of controversy inside Venezuela and a backlash throughout Latin America.
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After issuing the order last year, the pResident admitted that Venezuela posed no threat to the United States. Then why renew the executive order? Because he can and that is what dictators do.
David DeGerolamo
Kick ’em when they’re down why don’t you?
Sure sign of a narcissist.
The reason he renewed this now….is to keep Venezuela’s oil/gas out of this country, so as not to compete with the fixed oil pricing or cause further losses of revenues from Saudi’s oil.
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