Most recently this placed financial sanctions on the raft of Venezuelan officials In response to the results of the presidential election last year, which saw Maduro re -elected. The US, among other things, challenged the official results, which, according to the opposition, were recorded in favor of Maduro.
Rubio, a key figure in the new Trump administration, managed the confiscation of the Dassault Falcon 200 aircraft during a visit to the Dominican Santomin -Domining Military Airport at the last stop of its Latin American tour.
He told reporters on Thursday: “The message is that if there are sanctions because they violate human rights, they violate a whole series of things, going to Iran, helping countries that really want to harm the United States.
“These sanctions will be applied and intensified.”
Iran and Venezuela remain allies with Iranian President Masud Pescin congratulations. external Maduro about being swore to the third term as president Last month, saying that “attempts to threaten and authorize Venezuela” were “cruel and convicted.”
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to restore his maximum pressure against Iran, which seeks to prevent her from getting nuclear weapons and restricting it economically through sanctions.
The Dominican authorities detained the plane last year after the United States said they had violated US unilateral sanctions against Venezuela.
Venezuela’s representatives used a plane for flight to Greece, Turkey, Russia, Nicaragua and Cuba, and delivered it to the Dominican Republic for maintenance, the US State Department reports.
The Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “to take all the necessary actions to expose this theft and demand the immediate return of its plane.”
In September, the United States, under the then President Joe Biden, seized the first Venezuelan plane in the Dominican Republic, which was used to carry President Maduro on international trips.
