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Sheinbaum urges UN to ‘prevent bloodshed’ after Trump orders Venezuela blockade

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Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during the daily morning briefing at Palacio Nacional on 28 August 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. Photograph: Héctor Vivas/Getty Images

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has urged the United Nations to “prevent any bloodshed” in Venezuela, as Donald Trump piled more pressure on the South American country.

“The United Nations has been conspicuously absent. It must assume its role to prevent any bloodshed and to always seek the peaceful resolution of conflicts,” the leftwing president told reporters the morning after Washington announced a blockade of “sanctioned oil tankers” entering or leaving Venezuela.

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