The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado predicted this Wednesday consequences for the regime of Nicolás Maduro by the bill passed by the United States House of Representatives, which prohibits the federal institutions of the North American Government from hiring people or companies that have commercial ties with the Chavista Executivewhich they consider “illegitimate.”
“The Bolívar law (officially the Law for the Prohibition of Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela) sends a clear message to the regime: repression and criminal activities have consequences, and no one will be able to normalize them“, stated María Corina Machado through X, although the rule must be approved by the Senate for it to become effective.
Likewise, he thanked the “unwavering support” of the Florida Republican Senator Rick Scottrecently re-elected, with whom he had a telephone conversation about the bill and Venezuela’s “commitment to freedom.”
“We count on your continued support for a democratic transition, as was the mandate after the epic victory of the people of Venezuela on July 28,” said Machado in reference to the presidential elections, in which he assures that the winner was the candidate of the largest opposition coalition, Edmundo González Urrutia, contrary to the official result, which gave re-election to Nicolás Maduro.
For its part, Senator Scott, also former governor of Florida, assured that Nicolás Maduro’s days “are numbered” and expressed his pride in continuing to fight in the United States Senate against the “oppression” of the Chavista regime.
The Bolívar bill was presented by Florida representatives Mike Waltz, Republican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who consider, in the former’s words, that the United States must “maintain existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand them to minimize Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.”
This Tuesday, Joe Biden’s government referred for the first time to Edmundo González Urrutia as the “elected president” of Venezuela, something that Nicolás Maduro’s regime repudiated.
After the Venezuelan presidential elections, there were massive protests against the official result that gave victory to Nicolás Maduro, which resulted in more than 2,400 detainees, according to official figures, some of them released after the “225 freedom measures” announced by the Chavista Prosecutor’s Office. , although the NGO Foro Penal has verified only 143 releases, whose judicial process continues.
(With information from EFE)
