It is noted that the Deputy Minister of Finance General Lugo Gomez and the former Minister of Electric Capacity and the head of the National Electro-Corporation Corpoelec Motta Dominguez came under sanctions.

Earlier, the US Treasury imposed sanctions against Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreasa.

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro called immoral US sanctions against the Central Bank of Venezuela.

Vladimir Shapovalov, Deputy Director of the Institute of History and Politics, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Political Science, Moscow State Pedagogical University, in an interview with the publication PolitEkspert, appreciated the events around Venezuela.