SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- U.S. Congressmen will present in September the Law for the Promotion of Freedoms, Opportunities and Rights in Venezuela (VALUE) to try to stop the dictator Nicolas Maduro and reaffirm sanctions against his regime.
According to reported the congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazarwho will lead the presentation of the bipartisan project, which will be presented before the U.S. Congress. Salazar will be joined by Congresswomen Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Senators Jim Risch, Michael Bennet, Bill Cassidy, Rick Scott and Bill Hagerty.
The Law WORTH establishes democratic parameters “that guide the removal of sanctions on the Maduro regime and any non-democratic successor.”
It also reaffirms the sanctions financial to the Central Bank of Venezuela, Petróleos de Venezuela, SA, and the Venezuelan cryptocurrency, while calling for the United States to block the participation of any non-democratic government of Venezuela in the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
VALOR, in turn, would authorize a contribution of five million dollars to create an OAS Emergency Fund to deploy observers electoral and human rights; would allow non-governmental organizations to support humanitarian, democracy-building, educational, environmental protection and non-commercial development projects in Venezuela that directly benefit the Venezuelan people.
It also seeks to block U.S. foreign assistance to any country that provides aid, including financial assistance (except humanitarian assistance), to the Maduro regime or any non-democratic successor.
The Act would require the U.S. president to develop a plan for economic support for a democratically governed Venezuela and submit a report to Congress outlining the barriers and policy objectives for trade and investment between the U.S. and a democratic Venezuela.
“The United States cannot wait any longer as Maduro completes his theft of Venezuela’s elections,” Salazar said. “The United States must send the message that Maduro’s time in Miraflores is over and that Edmundo Gonzalez will assume his rightful office in January. No more money for the Chavistas and their repressive apparatus.”
For her part, Wasserman Schultz, who co-chairs the Venezuela Democracy Caucus in Congress, said: “Venezuelans bravely went to the polls to seek true and legitimate representation after a lost decade under Maduro.”
With just over a month to go before the Venezuelan elections, Juan Carlos Delpino, one of the five principal directors of the National Electoral Council (CNE), decided to denounce the irregularities and lack of transparency in the electoral process of July 28.
Through a statement published in the social network X, The lawyer denounced the illegitimacy of the announced results and declared that he does not possess the necessary evidence to support said results.
Delpino, with more than 20 years of experience in technical positions and as director of the CNE, highlighted that the election day took place with relatively few incidents reported until 5:00 pm.
According to the statement, at that time a participation of between 60 and 65% of the electoral register was projected, a figure that had been suggested by experts in the field. However, from that time on, situations began to arise that compromised the integrity of the electoral process.
Since the July 28 vote, several governments around the world have denounced electoral fraud in Venezuela. However, Juan Carlos Delpino’s statements represent the first significant denunciation coming from within the Venezuelan electoral system.
