Maduro calls the US bill that vetoes contracts with Venezuela rubbish

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, described this Wednesday as “garbage” the bill passed by the United States House of Representativeswhich complements the regulations that prohibit federal institutions of the North American government from hiring people or companies that have commercial ties with the Chavista government.

“With Venezuela they have not been able to and will not be able to, not even with this garbage law, with this law of infamy (…), the garbage law requested by surnames (in relation to opposition leaders), committing serious international and national crimes,” Maduro said during an event with the heads of public powers, broadcast on the state channel VTV.

He leader He rejected that the legislative project has the last name of the liberator Simón Bolívar as its name, which he described as “criminal.”

BREAKING NEWS |🇻🇪🇺🇸 Maduro repudiates the Bolívar Law approved in the United States and describes it as “garbage” and “criminal attempt” against Venezuela

“It is an association to commit a crime to support that law,” said dictator Nicolás Maduro minutes ago

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“Now they want to plague Venezuela with sanctions in the name of freedom, with the name of Bolívar. “I totally repudiate the criminal attempt to name a law of war against Venezuela after Bolívar,” he noted.

Maduro warned that those opponents who support this bill will be committing crimes, so they must abide by the judicial “consequences,” without specifying what they would be.

He maintained that, in response, the Venezuelan Parliament will approve an “anti-blockade law” in “defense of Venezuela,” which will be called the “Simón Bolívar Liberator Law.”

Machado warns of consequences for Maduro

Opposition leader María Corina Machado predicted this Wednesday consequences for the Maduro government for this bill.

Thank you, Congressman @michaelgwaltzfor supporting the courage and will of the Venezuelan people. The Maduro regime will not be able to silence the truth.

We are grateful for his leadership and to all members of the House of Representatives who promoted and passed the Act…

— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) November 20, 2024

“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,” said Machado through X, although the rule must be approved by the Senate for it to become effective.

The Bolívar bill was presented by Florida representatives Mike Waltz, Republican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who believe, in the former’s words, that the United States should “maintain existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand them to minimize the Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.”