Tag: Carlos Holmes Trujillio

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  OAS votes to use Rio Treaty to implement economic sanctions to the Maduro regime, but no military action

  

  In a meeting convened by the Organization of American States, 16 of the 19 states party to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, a 1947 pact known as the Rio Treaty, backed using the pact to collaborate on law-enforcement operations and economic sanctions against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, and associates, accusing his regime of criminal activity including drug trafficking and money laundering.