{"id":4235,"date":"2025-12-25T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/us-focus-venezuela-oil-embargo-next-two-months\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:30:24","slug":"us-focus-venezuela-oil-embargo-next-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/us-focus-venezuela-oil-embargo-next-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Focus on Venezuela Oil Embargo in the Next Two Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by Reuters citing a US official, the White House has instructed the country&#8217;s military forces to concentrate primarily on enforcing an embargo on Venezuela&#8217;s oil exports over the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>The US official stated that although military options against Venezuela remain on the table, Washington&#8217;s current policy is based on intensifying economic pressure in an effort to expand its influence over Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the United States and Venezuela have been strained in recent years, especially following the escalation of unilateral US sanctions against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government. These sanctions have primarily targeted Venezuela&#8217;s energy sector and maritime transport.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Venezuelan officials consider these measures an economic blockade that violates international law principles and have repeatedly protested against ship seizures and Washington&#8217;s increasing pressure.<\/p>\n<p>International affairs analysts believe that the United States aims to heighten political and economic pressure to weaken Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government and compel Caracas to shift its domestic and foreign policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US plans to focus on enforcing a Venezuela oil export embargo over the next two months, intensifying economic pressure on Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}