“UK criticised over sales of military equipment to Venezuela” -11 August 2017 07.31 BST

Britain has sold military equipment worth millions of pounds to Venezuela in the last decade, it has emerged, prompting calls for Theresa May to suspend controlled export licences while the country in is the grip of violent clashes between police and protesters…In the last year of figures, to March 2016, licences for goods worth more than £80,000 were approved, including equipment for crowd control to be used by law enforcement agencies…The government says it does not export equipment when it assesses there is a clear risk that it might be used for internal repression or would provoke or prolong conflict in a country, or where there is a clear risk that the intended recipient would use the items aggressively against another country.