This Thursday it was learned that the Government of Joseph Biden, President of the United States, announced that since February 6 it controls the diplomatic headquarters of Venezuela in Washington and New York, as well as other properties of the national Government, this after ignoring the alleged internship of former deputy Juan Guaidó last December.
Fernando Blasi, sent to the US by former deputies, whose terms ended in 2019, whom Biden says he recognizes as power in Venezuela, learned on Wednesday, along with a dozen people, of the White House’s decision when they were prevented from accessing to real estate, according to Bloomberg.
The US media, citing “people, who asked not to be identified because the information is sensitive”, points out that “the mission (Venezuelan embassy building that belongs to the Venezuelan State) closed because the opposition was left without executive power after the end of Guaidó’s interim government in December.”
The note highlights how the “group of at least a dozen people continued to work outside the embassy and diplomatic residences this week” and how “on Wednesday they were denied entry to the buildings.”
Bloomberg review, citing anonymous sources from the US State Department, that in January, after Guaidó was ignored, those people who were denied entry to the embassy in Washington, the consulate in New York and the residences “were granted a period of 30 days to resolve their immigration status.”
The note also highlights how four years ago, during the US presidency of Donald Trump, the White House handed over to the alleged interim control, not only of the real estate but “of foreign assets, including the management of the parent company of US oil refiner Citgo Petroleum Corp’.
Then he assures that by withdrawing control over the diplomatic headquarters and residences from the most radical opposition against the Maduro government, “the confusion” regarding the administration of Venezuelan assets in that country increases.
Now Biden controls Venezuelan assets alone
It is worth noting that Blasi, who was the commercial attache of the presumed mission of which Vecchio was head, was sent to replace Carlos Vecchio; envoy of Guaidó’s alleged interim administration, but to make the framework undertaken by the US against Venezuela even more confusing, the White House does not recognize him because he was not appointed by an Executive, but by a Legislative, although that alleged Parliament does not have any legitimacy having the end of the term for which he was elected.
This panorama is the result of Trump’s coup strategy through Guaidó to seize Venezuelan assets abroad, over which not even the alleged acting self-proclaimed parliament that on January 3, Ned Price, spokesman, has control over. of the US State Department, said they recognized Guaidó instead.
It is also important to remember that on January 6, Vecchio announced that he was leaving the Venezuelan embassy in Washington after ending the support of the US Government for the alleged interim, this through a text in which he attacked his former accomplices in the interim , who voted to withdraw support for Guaidó and in addition to him.
Three days before Vecchio’s farewell, Price told the press after ignoring Guaidó, from the Biden government “respect” the decisions of the former deputies elected in 2015, but by not recognizing Fernando Blasi as an envoy, it seems coherent to assume that there is no Venezuelan intermediary in Biden’s control of Venezuelan assets in the US.
The embassy had already been violated
Another important piece of information is how Vecchio occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Washington after a violent assault carried out in May 2019 by far-right radicals who, with the support of the US police, illegally broke into the diplomatic compound and arrested the group of US citizens who were guarding the facilities. .
The illegal occupation, which Vecchio ended on January 6, but was reissued on February 6 with the takeover by the US authorities, began in May 2019 after the brutal assault; in violation of international treaties that are respected even between nations at war, by right-wing extremists in the US capital.
It is also important to remember that after the assault, part of the group of activists who tried to protect the Venezuelan facility located at 1099 Georgetown, between 30th and Northwest streets, in the US capital, Washington DC, ended up in prison.
US activists were besieged and some of them arrested and criminally charged for showing their support for the legitimacy of the government of President Nicolás Maduro, the charges were later dropped for not having legal support.
The activists defended the Venezuelan Embassy building in Washington for 36 days and occupied the building with the express authorization of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry on behalf of the Maduro government since the announcement, by both governments, of the rupture of diplomatic relations.
These activists lived, in the heart of the capital of the country that stands as a champion of human rights, a brutal siege when the US authorities and the Venezuelan opposition radicals cut electricity and water services to force them to leave and prevented food from entering.
It was about 50 activists from liberal anti-war groups who promised to protect the building what they described as “a hostile takeover”, while the US State Department describes them as “intruders” and allowed fundamental rights to be violated with the cutting of vital services.
It is worth remembering that in mid-May, Police officers posted an “eviction notice” at the gates of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington.
The action was denounced on Twitter by the Code Pink organization, one of the groups of American volunteers that prevented the invasion of the Venezuelan headquarters who assumed the diplomatic representation of Venezuela in the United States.
The notice ordered those defending the compound “to leave immediately” and threatened to arrest those who refused to comply with such orders.
Code Pink also denounced that the document did not bear a letterhead or signature of any authority. However, on behalf of the authorities, he demanded the evacuation of the building.
Journalist Abby Martin, who was following the case, said this action sent a message to all embassies in the United States that they will no longer be protected by international law.
Later it happened that unknown persons reached the embassy and broke the padlocks on the doors that give access to the building.
