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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Venezuela Fiercely Rejects US Senate’s Passing of BOLIVAR Act</h1>December 19, 2022</div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>Below you will find an unofficial translation of the statement:</p>
<p><strong>Venezuela rejects the shameful bill by US Congress that violates economic freedoms and offends the liberator, Simón Bolívar<br>
</strong>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Caracas, December 16, 2022</p>
<p>Orinoco Tribune Special by staff</p>
<p>OT/JRE/FV/DD</p>
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