2020 Assembly debates law to perpetually disqualify those who request sanctions

The National Assembly, controlled by Chavismo, approved this Thursday the discussion of an organic law that seeks to politically disqualify those who request “terrorist groups or associations” from other countries. to impose economic sanctions against country.

The draft “Simón Bolívar liberator organic law against the imperialist blockade and the defense of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”, It was approved unanimously in the plenary session this Thursday, in which the president of the Chamber, the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, insisted that the political disqualification It will be perpetual.

Chavista deputy Carlos Mogollón explained that this legislative project seeks to “confront” economic sanctions, which – he said – “attack human rights and other guarantees, contrary to public international law, the United Nations Charter, the norms and principles that drive relationships civilized between the different countries.

«The Simón Bolívar special law of liberation was born as a legal instrument in the face of the popular cry for justice, of a people who as a whole have been the object of ruthless unilateral coercive measures that constitute crimes against humanity,” he added.

The focus of the bill

Mogollón indicated that the text seeks to sanction persons, natural or legal, who in agreement with countries, groups or “terrorist associations” request sanctions against Venezuela, as well as the confiscation of public assets that prevent the normal development “economic, social, cultural or political” of the nation.

The deputy indicated that political disqualifications are also proposed for those people who “have never been public officials.” that they also ally themselves with “foreign powers” to promote sanctions.

Chavista deputy Iris Varela proposed that this law, which must go through a second plenary discussion, should propose the annulment of all identification documents of the people to whom the sanction of disqualification is applied.

«They cannot be deprived of their nationality but the Venezuelan State has an identification system, it has public records and I formally propose that the annulment of all the identification and company registration documents of those people who commit this type of crime be studied (…) and that can be done administratively,” he said.

The regulations are presented after the United States House of Representatives approved a bill that complements the regulations that prohibit federal institutions of the US government from hiring people or companies that have ties to the Executive of Nicolás Maduro.

On Wednesday, Maduro described the US regulations as “garbage” and He said that Venezuelan opposition leaders who have supported the text are “committing serious international and national crimes.”