Canada’s Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joy, stated that the sanctions were imposed in alignment with the position of its allies, including the United States. A total of five officials from the Maduro administration are included in the measure
The Government of Canada issued this Wednesday, December 17, new sanctions against five Venezuelan officials, linked to the ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that “fraudulently” declares President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the July 28 elections. .
Canada refers to the process that took place -after the presidential elections- at the headquarters of the TSJ with hearings of presidential candidates and the Unitary Platform, who were asked to present the minutes of the elections in their possession. Likewise, the CNE authorities were summoned to present support for the decision announced at dawn on July 29. After the expert opinion carried out, the Judiciary certified the results offered by Elvis Amoroso, president of the CNE, and urged him to publish the data.
In this sense, the president of the TSJ, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez Rodríguez, was sanctioned. With it, Judge Juan Carlos Hidalgo Pandares was also sanctioned; Judge Eduardo Miguel Briceño Cisneros, prosecutor Luis Ernesto Dueñez Reyes and the rector of the CNE Rosalba Gil Pacheco.
in the textsigned by Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joy, indicated that these new sanctions are “aligned” with the measures taken by its allies, including the United States, in early 2024.
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«The sanctions will seek to add additional pressure on the de facto authorities of Venezuela to respect the will of the Venezuelan people (…) they also aim to dissuade the authorities from taking further actions that violate the human rights of protesters, journalists, opposition leaders and other members of civil society,” says the text.
Joy, for his part, stated that these sanctions by Canada send a “clear” message and that is that his country “will not sit idly by while the Maduro regime continues to ignore the democratic will of the Venezuelan people.”
Furthermore, he highlighted that, although the Venezuelan crisis needs peaceful and negotiated solutions through dialogue – which they support – they also have at their hand tools that impose costs on all those who do not allow the democratic rights of Venezuelans to freely express.
So far, Canada has sanctioned more than 80 Venezuelan officials between 2017 and 2019.
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