Venezuela rejects President Trump’s call to halt constitution rewrite.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela rejected President Donald Trump’s call to halt a rewriting of its constitution that is widely seen as a move to consolidate the government’s power, saying Tuesday that it is reviewing its relations with the United States in response to Trump’s threat to impose economic sanctions.

Foreign Minister Samuel Moncada said on state television that the election of members of a constitutional assembly will take place as planned on July 30. He said President Nicolas Maduro has asked him to reconsider the country’s diplomatic relations with the U.S.

“The constitutional assembly is happening,” Moncada said, adding that Venezuela is “conducting a deep review of relations with the U.S. government because we don’t accept humiliation from anyone.”

On Monday, Trump threatened to take unspecified “economic actions” if Maduro goes ahead with the assembly. Maduro’s socialist supporters want the assembly to grant him more power over the few institutions still outside the control of his ruling party.

The U.S. is a major market for the oil exports that drive Venezuela’s economy. Trump has imposed travel bans and has frozen the assets of high-ranking officials in recent weeks, but refrained from broad sanctions against the country that could deepen its economic crisis.

The opposition said it would launch a plan it called “zero hour” on Wednesday that includes an agreement to form an alternate government and create 2,000 local committees that would function as street-level support for the opposition.

That would be followed Thursday by a nationwide strike, which could bring much of Venezuela’s already sputtering economy to a standstill.