The institutions of the Venezuelan State will take measures against citizens who support the bill approved on Monday by the United States House of Representatives that uses the name of Simón Bolívar as an acronym, declared this Saturday the President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro, when considering that it is a “fascist” document and those who support it commit treason to the country.
“That person who asks that this law be approved from the national territory, that Venezuelan person who promotes, who supports the approval of that law and who asks for criminal sanctions and the economic war against Venezuela flagrantly violates the Constitution and the laws of “the republic, and the Venezuelan State and institutions are obliged to act in the name of justice and republican sovereignty,” said the head of state during the closing of the World Youth Congress and Antifascist Students.
The measure violates “absolutely all norms of international law” in a “vulgar and flagrant” manner, denounced Maduro. “It is a law of economic war against the people of Venezuela and that they have tried to describe with the name of our liberator Simón Bolívar,” he criticized.
“What infamy, what trash! The rubbish law. And they intend to normalize that the US Congress can approve laws against sovereign countries. To colonize the entire world. And we must applaud,” he stated. In this sense, Maduro urged public powers to act immediately to preserve the peace and integrity of the country.
The initiative, promoted by congressmen Mike Waltz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, prohibits the US Government from hiring “any person who has commercial operations” with the Venezuelan Executive, which has been rejected by the national government, considering that the The hero’s surname was used “shamelessly,” since Bolívar “dedicated his life to defeating imperialism and colonialism.”
After the announcement by the US congressmen, the Venezuelan Public Ministry announced that it had initiated an investigation against the far-right opponent María Corina Machado, due to her support for the bill that contemplates the imposition of more economic and financial sanctions against Venezuela.
