LatinNews Daily - 18 March 2024

Venezuela: On 6 March Venezuela’s government led by President Nicolás Maduro rejected the US government’s renewal of US executive order 13692, which was first issued in 2015 and declared a national emergency in Venezuela. The previous day US President Joe Biden announced in a statement to congress that the national emergency declaration must continue in effect given that “the situation in Venezuela continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. As per the statement, the US denounces the Venezuelan government’s erosion of human rights guarantees, persecution of political opponents, curtailment of press freedoms, use of violence and human rights violations in response to anti-government protests, and arbitrary arrest and detention of anti-government protesters, as well as “the exacerbating presence of significant government corruption”. In a statement shared on social media Venezuela’s foreign minister, Yván Gil, expressed Venezuela’s strong rejection of the renewal of the executive order, describing it as “unnecessary, absurd, and hostile”. Gil claimed that the order has so far been used to sustain aggression against Venezuela’s people and violates “every norm of international law”.

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