Venezuela asks UN to say US can’t invoke treaty to use force

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela is asking the U.N. Security Council to affirm that the United States and 10 other countries have no authority to use force against the South American nation by invoking the Inter-American Reciprocal Assistance Treaty.
Venezuelan Ambassador Samuel Moncada alleged in a letter circulated Wednesday that the 1947 treaty is being used “as a tool” to implement a naval blockade that President Donald Trump threatened Aug. 1. Moncada said the aim is overth