[News] Venezuela Decries Latest US Sanction on Food System

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  Venezuela Decries Latest US Sanction on Food System

July 25, 2019
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Venezuelan authorities say they reject the newest set of sanctions by 
the United States government aimed at cutting off food aid for the poor 
into the South American country.

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In a statement issued by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, the government 
denounced "the repeated aggression of the U.S. Government against the 
people."

"The Trump Administration has blocked bank transactions, purchases of 
food and medicine, and has carried out countless actions in order to 
deny the Venezuelan people their sovereign will and force a change of 
government through unconstitutional means," the text reads.

    #COMUNICADO
    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/COMUNICADO?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
    | Venezuela denuncia ante la comunidad internacional la reiterada
    práctica de terrorismo económico por parte del gobierno de EEUU
    contra el pueblo venezolano, al anunciar medidas cuyo fin criminal
    es privar a todos los venezolanos de su derecho a la alimentación.
    pic.twitter.com/9EWySRinY8 <https://t.co/9EWySRinY8>

    — Jorge Arreaza M (@jaarreaza) July 26, 2019
    <https://twitter.com/jaarreaza/status/1154550890126200833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>


*Venezuela denounces to the international community the repeated 
practice of economic terrorism by the U.S. government against the 
Venezuelan people, announcing measures whose criminal purpose is to 
deprive all Venezuelans of their right to food.*

This time, the U.S. administration under Donald Trump is making it more 
difficult for President Nicolas Maduro to carry out his Local Committees 
for Supply and Production (CLAP) program that provides food to millions 
of people across the country.

On Thursday evening, Arreaza tweeted: “Venezuela denounces to the 
international community the repeated practice of economic terrorism by 
the U.S. government against the Venezuelan people, announcing measures 
whose criminal purpose is to deprive all Venezuelans of their right to 
food."

Arreaza called the latest sanctions, which target over a dozen people, 
including Maduro’s step son, “coercive, unilateral and illegal.” He 
added that this move by the White House constitutes "economic terrorism 
and has been rejected by the international community given that it 
violates the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter."

The foreign minister says the Maduro government it won’t succumb to U.S. 
blackmails, but "will face them with courage, dignity and democratic 
conviction.”

Sanctions against Venezuela, its politicians and people began over a 
decade ago under the Barack Obama administration, and have made it 
possible to block and freeze government assets, accounts and funds, and 
suspend and cancel visas and other documents belonging to officials and 
citizens.

However, the Trump administration has upped the sanction severity 
exponentially 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Timeline-of-Half-a-Decade-of-US-Economic-War-Against-Venezuela-20190521-0011.html>. 
In August 2017, his U.S. Executive Order 13808 prohibited all 
transactions aimed at financing Venezuela. It banned direct or indirect 
purchases of Venezuelan government securities, which included bonds, 
loans, credit extensions, loan guarantees, credit letters, drafts, 
bankers acceptance, invoices or discount notes and commercial papers. 
This single decree granted legal status to the financial boycott, making 
private banks an openly active partner in the U.S. administration’s 
isolation policy.

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