MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On March 9, Barack Obama issued an executive order imposing new sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials, freezing their assets and banning them from entering the United States. Obama described the "erosion" of human rights guarantees in Venezuela as an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to US security.
"Venezuela is going to file a lawsuit in the United States itself over the international illegality of Barack Obama’s decree which has been threatening Venezuela since March 9 of this year," Maduro said in a televised speech on Thursday, as quoted by El Tiempo newspaper.
According to the president, a lawsuit is the only way to eradicate the decree.
Relations between Washington and Caracas have worsened recently over alleged human rights violations during protests in Venezuela’s capital against the Maduro government in February of 2014.
