Isn't a blockade a straight up act of war?

[Girard442]

We are at war with Venezuela, no?

[msongs]

1. more like war ON venezuela

[Igel]

2. Probably getting close to it--

but the other side doesn't have to respond.

But it's not a blockade. Ships and come and go and land routes are fully open.

And, on edit:

It's also unclear if it's being or going to be enforced. A backhanded declaration blockade that's ignored by everybody in practice isn't much of a blockade, is it?

[Arazi]

4. They're not ignoring it. Air travel over and into Venezuela has ceased

Traitor has no authority to impose a blockade but he does theoretically have the ability and nobody’s going to risk a plane full of civilians after the boat strikes.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. Not a blockade,

ships can still come and go, at least for now.

[GJGCA]

5. Yes, at least in 1962 it was...

Wikipedia:

[US president John F.] Kennedy was advised to carry out an air strike on Cuban soil in order to compromise Soviet missile supplies, followed by an invasion of the Cuban mainland. He chose a less aggressive course in order to avoid a declaration of war. On 22 October, Kennedy ordered a naval blockade to prevent further missiles from reaching Cuba. He referred to the blockade as a "quarantine", not as a blockade, so the US could avoid the formal implications of a state of war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. This is true,

but ships aren't being prevented from coming into Ven. ports, so there is no blockade, at least not yet.