[News] Venezuela Fiercely Rejects US Senate’s Passing of Bolivar Act

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Venezuela Fiercely Rejects US Senate’s Passing of BOLIVAR ActDecember 19,
2022
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[image: Senator Rick Scott giving statements to the press outside the White
House, escorted by Senator Marco Rubio and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Photo: Phil Ammann.]

Senator Rick Scott giving statements to the press outside the White House,
escorted by Senator Marco Rubio and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Photo:
Phil Ammann.

This Friday, December 16, the US Senate unanimously approved the Law to
Prohibit Operations and Leasing with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime
of Venezuela (BOLIVAR Act), presented by the ultra-conservative Floridian
senator, Rick Scott. The discussion of the interventionist act in the lower
house of the US Congress is still pending.

“The regulations prohibit federal agencies from doing business with anyone
who supports the oppressive Maduro regime,” reported the official website
of Scott, who was one of the primary promoters of the law. Scott was joined
by far-right Senator Marco Rubio as well as other far-right congressmen.
The bill had been unanimously approved by the US Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Government Affairs in March 2021, as a preliminary
step before being discussed in the Senate.

The new imperialist act against the democratically elected government of
President Nicolás Maduro is approved just one day after the celebration of
the physical disappearance of the founding father of the Venezuelan and our
American homeland, Simón Bolívar, who already at the beginning of the 20th
century questioned US imperialism with his famous phrase: “The United
States seems destined by providence to plague America with misery in the
name of liberty.”

On Saturday, via a released statement, the Venezuelan government spoke out
fiercely in response, condemning this new aggression by the United States
and indicating that the proposal seeks to make the policy of illegal
sanctions against the Venezuelan people irreversible.

Answering directly to the news, Foreign Minister of the Republic Carlos
Faría tweeted: “The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
strongly condemns a new attempt by the US Congress to violate the economic
rights of the Venezuelan people and offend the memory of the liberator,
Simón Bolívar.”

The text of the statement, which was also published on the website of the
Ministry for Foreign Relations, rejects the bill both in its name and in
its content, for violating economic freedoms and representing “a serious
offense to the Venezuelan people.”

It also stresses that the act is “contrary to international law and is
conceived from the extremist sectors of United States politics.” Likewise,
it points out that this measure “demonstrates, once again, the cruelty of
ultra-conservative sectors and coup leaders in US politics that repeat
their attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government.”

It indicates that these sectors of the United States Congress “have no
interest in seeing a development process in Venezuela.” Likewise, it
rejects the name of the bill “for offending the Venezuelan people, its
history and its liberator.”

Below you will find an unofficial translation of the statement:


*Venezuela rejects the shameful bill by US Congress that violates economic
freedoms and offends the liberator, Simón Bolívar *The Government of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela fiercely rejects the approval by the US
Congress of a nefarious bill that, both in its name and in its content,
constitutes a violation of economic freedoms and a serious offense against
the Venezuelan people.

This instrument, contrary to international law and conceived from the
extremist sectors of politics in the United States, violates the integrity
of the sovereign people of Venezuela as well as that of the United States
companies themselves, by placing them at risk of being penalized, in an
arbitrary, unfair and illegal manner, by exercising their right to free
trade through contracts with the Bolivarian government.

This abusive measure demonstrates, once again, the cruelty of
ultra-conservative sectors and coup leaders in US politics that repeat
their attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government and sabotage any
possible route to dialogue and constructive relations between the two
countries.

With this bill, which seeks to make unilateral coercive measures
irreversible, it is confirmed that these same sectors have no interest in
seeing a development process in Venezuela or any improvement in the quality
of life of our population, much less that they are interested in
guaranteeing free and fair elections, as they are promoting more obstacles
and hostile measures against the country.

The name of said instrument, moreover, offends the Venezuelan people, its
history and its liberator, whose republican values and commitment to the
principles of freedom and peace are far above those of a handful of
legislators ignorant of [Venezuela’s] glory, and that they will only be
remembered in history due to their complicity with the aggression against
free and sovereign countries.

Faced with a Monroist threat and its war-builder heirs, the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela will continue to cultivate and defend the legacy of
the liberator Simón Bolívar, carving out its own path of political and
social stability, economic recovery and peace diplomacy, for a world free
of hegemonism, colonialism and imperialism.

Caracas, December 16, 2022

Orinoco Tribune Special by staff

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