Maduro considers it “unavoidable” that a law be approved to prosecute those who request sanctions
Nicolás Maduro considered this Monday “unavoidable” that the National Assembly – controlled by Chavismo – approves a law, which is in draft, to prosecute Venezuelans who approve or support “calls for criminal sanctions”blockade, military invasions or any foreign damage” against the Caribbean country.
In his weekly program ‘Con Maduro +’, he indicated that the law, approved in the first discussion last Thursday, establishes – he said – “heavy penalties” and will provide the institutions with “a legal-constitutional weapon to defend the right to peace, to the tranquility of Venezuela.
The AN announced that the project, officially ‘Simón Bolívar liberator organic law against the imperialist blockade and the defense of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’, contemplates politically disqualifying those who request other countries, “terrorist groups or associations”, to impose economic sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
Bolivar Law
The head of state said that this proposal will serve to “counteract” and “defeat” in all its aspects the project of law passed by the US House of Representatives which complements the regulations that prohibit federal institutions of the North American government from hiring people or companies that have commercial ties with the Chavista Executive.
The US project was presented by Florida representatives Mike Waltz, Republican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who consider, in the words of the former, that the United States should “maintain the existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand them to minimize the resources of “Maduro to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.”
On Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office announced the opening of an investigation against the opposition leader María Corina Machado for – she assured – supporting the US bill, which the former representative considered a sign of “weakness” of the Maduro government, while accusing the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, as “the main repressor of the regime.”
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