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The United States denied on Thursday that it was planning a “military invasion” on Venezuela and defended its “sovereign” right to impose sanctions on Venezuelan officials. It also urged the Organization of American States (OAS) to “speak out” about human rights “violations” in Venezuela.
“My government wants to make something clear here: we are not preparing a military intervention. We do not seek to destabilize the Venezuelan government with a coup d'état (…). There is not an extra-territorial component in the sanctions; they are domestic legislation,” said the interim US permanent representative to the OAS, Michael Fitzpatrick …. http://www.eluniversal.com