“I ordered to send a complete list of senior officers and admirals of the armed forces to the US Treasury to facilitate their task of introducing sanctions against revolutionary defenders of the Constitution and national sovereignty, according to quotas,” he wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, the United States expanded the sanctions lists in Venezuela. Sanctions were imposed on six individuals, among them Richard Lopez Vargas, commander of the National Guard.
The Venezuelan authorities, commenting on the US sanctions, said that the US government is conducting a fierce campaign to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Vladimir Travkin, editor-in-chief of the journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Latin America" expressed the opinion that much in Venezuela depends on how the military behave.