“The declaration of Venezuela in 2015 as an unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States was the gate to all the executive orders signed by Donald Trump,” affirmed Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, during his intervention in a virtual seminar themed “Let Us Breathe. Sanctions as violations of Human Rights.”
The Venezuelan foreign minister said Venezuela does not suffer from an economic, financial blockade, but also from persecution. “They call and threaten companies. They prevent oil exports, the purchase of equipment and additives.”
Arreaza explained the impact of the unilateral coercive measures on Venezuelan oil companies reduces the State’s capacity to produce what the people need. The unilateral coercive measures “are part of a multifaceted, multidimensional attack, of an economic, media war to discredit the leadership of the Venezuelan people.”
In the same vein, after referring to conventional warfare methods, he said that “they are dropping other type of bombs” by preventing food imports and the purchase of medicines.
Foreign Minister Arreaza recalled the referral filed in February in the International Criminal Court (ICC) to formally request an investigation into crimes against humanity resulting from the illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed by the U.S. Government against the Venezuelan people and state.
“The proposal is to go to an international trial and denounce unilateral coercive measures, to bring capitalism, imperialism and their political faces to trial. It is up to us to create the tools so that the peoples, with the help of experts and professionals, can reach a conclusion on the crimes the United States have committed,” added Minister Arreaza.
Likewise, he referred to a book written by Richard Nephew, former adviser of former President Obama, about sanctions that clearly explains they seek the peoples’ capitulation or a popular rebellion against governments.
“According to Foreign Minister Arreaza, it is a duty not only for the Venezuelan State, but also for the Venezuelan people, to condemn unilateral coercive measures. “We are the sons and daughters of Simón Bolívar. We do not know about capitulations,” he said.
During his intervention, Arreaza said that faced with sanctions, Venezuelans expect the Anti-Blockade Law to provide for the “necessary tools” to relax some actions of the economic policies the country faces.
“Many positive things are on their way in the coming years for Venezuela, and we know we rely on the solidarity of all the peoples with our struggle against imperialism,” he concluded.