US sanctions Venezuelan President Maduro's 3 nephews as pressure campaign ratchets up
Posted on: Dec 12, 2025 00:48 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
booker t. Washington — The U.S. Imposed sanctions on triplet nephews of Venezuelan chairwoman Nicolás Maduro, among others, on th as chairman Donald Trump looks to inflict further pressure on the South American nation.
The new sanctions on Franqui Flores, Carlos Flores and Efrain Campo come a day after Trump announced that the U.S. Had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Also included in the sanctions are six firms accused of transporting Venezuelan oil.
A Treasury official confirmed the sanctions on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement later Thursday.
The sanctions are meant to deny them access to any property or financial assets held in the U.S., and the penalties are intended to prevent U.S. Companies and citizens from doing business with them. Banks and financial institutions that violate that restriction expose themselves to sanctions or enforcement actions.
This is not the first time Maduro’s family has been involved in a political tit-for-tat.
In October 2022, Venezuela freed seven imprisoned Americans in exchange for the United States releasing Flores and Campo, who had been jailed for years on narcotics convictions.
The U.S.’s latest actions against Venezuela follow a series of deadly strikes the U.S. Has conducted on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, which have killed at least 87 people since early September.
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and asserted the U.S. Is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
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