The expatriate Venezuelan people are demanding additional sanctions from the government

Fifty Venezuelans living abroad in a letter to the US President, Joe Biden, And the continuation of criminal investigations into other officials, new sanctions and figures from the Maduro government. They stressed that these measures would “benefit ordinary Venezuelan people.”

It also called for the release of political prisoners and the holding of “free and fair” presidential elections. Furthermore, the U.S. government supports the prosecutor’s investigative work International Criminal Court On Venezuela (CPI)

The letter, dated April 21, 2022, was signed by more than 50 “decent and morally powerful” Venezuelan citizens living in the United States and Spain, in addition to other European countries. They are bans that are accused of harming people.

“Those who are committed to campaigning for the lifting of these sanctions are seeking to protect the economic interests of these criminals, not the interests of the Venezuelan people,” they stressed.

In addition to President Biden, the recipients of the letter were James Story, the US ambassador to Venezuela; Anthony Blingen, Secretary of State; Ron Disantis; Governor of Florida and representatives and senators of the US Congress.

The crisis was not caused by sanctions against Maduro

The signatories to the letter make it clear to the recipients that the appearance of the “severe economic and structural crisis” that will plague Venezuela is “unrelated to the sanctions imposed by the United States on the figures of the Savista government.”

According to him, the crisis that caused the Venezuelan people “unexplained suffering and humiliation that can be defined as genocide” and the expulsion of millions of people was first and foremost “wrong” by economic and monetary policies. Implemented “under the advice” of Cuba.

Moreover, the planned destruction of the country’s manufacturing equipment and business sector, the removal of the rule of law and the decline of legal protection. The letter goes on to expose each of those aspects in detail, except for corruption, which is unprecedented in Republican history.

The signatories insist that US sanctions, far from being the cause of the crisis, “put a stop to the suffering of the Venezuelan people.” They felt that they had helped to “shut down the regime’s funding for crime.”

Maduro Government Coalitions

They also underline the government of Nicolas Maduro as an ally of drug trafficking groups in Russia, Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua and China and Colombia, Bolivia and Mexico, and “terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and the ELN.” FARC “.

“This international criminal alliance undoubtedly represents a national security threat to the United States,” they added.

They also insist that US sanctions “do no harm to the Venezuelan people.”

“Sanctions have been imposed on the regime and its officials for violating human rights (money launderers and drug traffickers), and exemptions from trade in food, medicine and essential commodities.”

No more negotiations and yes free election

According to the letter, “these restrictions have benefited ordinary Venezuelans, forcing the corrupt officials of the Maduro regime to somehow invest some of the stolen money in the national economy, fearing that their capital would be frozen in your foreign bank. Accounts.

They also accuse the idea that dialogue between the opposition and the government will “solve the problems of a country subject to tyranny.” They remember the failed attempts already made.

About elections

On electoral matters, they affirm, “the elections held in Venezuela over the years have been fraudulent and with little guarantee of transparency.” They have listed the guarantees that must be demanded for a fair election practice with the participation of the Venezuelan people from the diaspora.

“The Venezuelan people do not want to succumb to another mockery. Venezuela demands freedom and true democracy,” say signatories led by Ernesto Ackerman, a citizen of independent Venezuela and a member of the Republican Party of the United States.

The list includes businessmen, businessmen, lawyers and other professionals, journalists, community leaders and former Senator Pablo Medina Carasco.