Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, denounced recent U.S. actions aimed at undermining the country’s leadership and energy sector, amid President Donald Trump’s escalating pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro.US Accused of ‘Extortion’Speaking at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, Moncada accused Washington of “the greatest extortion known in our history,” after U.S. forces seized two of the nation’s oil tankers this month, while describing the situatio ...