Russia brands US blockade of Venezuela as ‘piracy’

Russia’s foreign ministry said that the United States was reviving piracy and banditry in the Caribbean Sea by blockading Venezuela, adding that it hoped that US President Donald Trump’s pragmatism would help avoid a disaster. “Today we are witnessing complete lawlessness in the Caribbean Sea, where long-forgotten theft of other people’s property, namely piracy, and banditry, are being revived,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement.