{"id":355229,"date":"2025-12-18T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355229\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:01:07","slug":"sheinbaum-urges-un-to-prevent-bloodshed-after-trump-orders-venezuela-blockade-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355229\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheinbaum urges UN to \u2018prevent bloodshed\u2019 after Trump orders Venezuela blockade | World news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico\u2019s president, Claudia Sheinbaum<\/a>, has urged the United Nations to \u201cprevent any bloodshed\u201d in Venezuela, as Donald Trump piled more pressure on the South American country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United Nations has been conspicuously absent. It must assume its role to prevent any bloodshed and to always seek the peaceful resolution of conflicts,\u201d the leftwing president told reporters the morning after Washington announced a blockade of \u201csanctioned oil tankers\u201d<\/a> entering or leaving Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The United States has for months been building a major military deployment in the Caribbean with the stated goal of combating Latin American drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

Caracas views the operation as a campaign to push out leftist strongman Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> \u2013 whom the US and many nations view as an illegitimate president \u2013 and to \u201csteal\u201d Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n

Venezuela has the world\u2019s largest proven reserves of oil, and although years of mismanagement and corruption have inflicted severe damage to its oil industry, oil exports remain Venezuela\u2019s main source of revenue.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum said that regardless of \u201copinions\u201d about the leadership of Maduro, Mexico\u2019s position is to reject \u201cforeign interference\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call for dialogue and peace to be used in any international dispute, and not intervention. That is our position by conviction and by our constitution,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum called for de-escalation and offered Mexico as a venue for any potential negotiations or meetings between Venezuela and the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire world must ensure that there is no intervention and that there is a peaceful solution,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

China also expressed support, as foreign minister Wang Yi told his Venezuelan counterpart that Beijing opposes \u201cunilateral bullying\u201d and supports countries in safeguarding their own sovereignty.<\/p>\n

China is the biggest buyer of Venezuelan crude, buying about 80% of its exports \u2013 although Venezuelan supply accounts for only about 4% of its total crude imports.<\/p>\n

Last week, US forces seized a tanker <\/a>in the Caribbean Sea that was carrying Venezuelan oil for Cuba and China.<\/p>\n

Wang said in a phone call with Venezuelan foreign minister Yv\u00e1n Gil that China and Venezuela are strategic partners and that mutual trust and support are a tradition of bilateral ties, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina believes the international community understands and supports Venezuela\u2019s position in defending its legitimate rights and interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chile\u2019s hard-right president-elect Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast on Tuesday said he would back efforts to end Maduro\u2019s \u201cdictatorship\u201d, expanding Trump\u2019s support base in the region at a time when he is considering strikes on Venezuelan territory.<\/p>\n

The US embassy in Quito announced on Wednesday that US air force personnel were in Ecuador\u2019s Pacific port city of Manta for \u201ca temporary operation with the Ecuadorian air force\u201d. It did not specify how many people or how much equipment had been deployed.<\/p>\n

Strikes on three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific killed eight people on Monday, according to the US military, the latest in a controversial campaign that has killed dozens of people.<\/p>\n

Since early September, the US military has targeted alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, destroying at least 26 small vessels and killing at least 95 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has urged the United Nations to \u201cprevent any bloodshed\u201d in Venezuela, as Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-355229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}