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<h1 class="reader-title">Venezuela Decries Latest US Sanction on
Food System</h1>
July 25, 2019</div>
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<p>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. </p>
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<p>In a statement issued by Foreign Minister Jorge
Arreaza, the government denounced "the repeated
aggression of the U.S. Government against the people." </p>
<p>"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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="es"><a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COMUNICADO?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COMUNICADO</a>
| 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. <a
href="https://t.co/9EWySRinY8">pic.twitter.com/9EWySRinY8</a></p>
— Jorge Arreaza M (@jaarreaza) <a
href="https://twitter.com/jaarreaza/status/1154550890126200833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July
26, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p><strong>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.</strong>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>However, the <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Timeline-of-Half-a-Decade-of-US-Economic-War-Against-Venezuela-20190521-0011.html"
target="_blank">Trump administration has upped the
sanction severity exponentially</a>. 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.</p>
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