“In its inherent“ cowboy ”manner, Washington continues the economic terror against official Caracas. Fixed freezing of funds and assets of the Venezuelan state Such steps have no legal grounds in terms of neither international nor domestic Venezuelan law, ”the ministry said.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump signed a decree implying blocking the ownership of Venezuelan authorities in US jurisdiction.
In accordance with the decree, the Central Bank of Venezuela and the oil company PDVSA fall under asset blocking.
The deputy director of the Institute of History and Politics of the Moscow State Pedagogical University Vladimir Shapovalov commented on Trump's decree in an interview with RT.