MADRID, December 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Venezuelan government has “strongly condemned” new legislation passed by the US Congress on Friday that bans US federal agencies from doing business with companies that support President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela firmly refuses the approval of the US Congress of a disastrous bill which, both in its name and in its content, constitutes a violation of economic freedoms and a grave offense to the Venezuelan people”, The Venezuelan Das has the Ministry of Foreign Relations released in a statement.
The ministry therefore refers to the law prohibiting operations and leases with Venezuela’s illegitimate authoritarian regime, Bolívar, for its English acronym, which provides sanctions for companies that have commercial relations with Venezuela.
“This instrument, contrary to international law and conceived by the extremist sectors of US politics, violates the integrity of the sovereign people of Venezuela, as well as that of US companies themselves, putting them at risk of being punished arbitrarily, unfairly and illegally by exercise the right to free trade through treaties with the Bolivarian government,” Caracas argued.
Additionally, Venezuela believes it is an “abusive” norm that “demonstrates once again the cruelty of ultra-conservative sectors and coup plotters in US politics” in their attempt to “constrain the…
Venezuelan government and to blast any possible path to dialogue and constructive relations between the two countries”.
The norm’s name “insults the Venezuelan people, their history and their liberator, whose republican values and commitment to the principles of liberty and peace far surpass those of a handful of lawmakers who are ignorant of his glory and who will only be in history be remembered for their complicity in aggression against free and sovereign countries”.
“Faced with the threat of the Monroists and his war builders, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will continue to cultivate and defend the legacy of the liberator Simón Bolívar and blaze its own path of political and social stability, economic recovery and peace diplomacy in a world free from hegemonism, colonialism and Imperialism”, concludes the text.