TSJ calls sanctions issued by the US against magistrates an outrage

The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) rejected this Friday, September 13, the Sanctions issued by the United States Department of the Treasury against 16 Venezuelan officialsincluding five judgesaccused of being part of the alleged electoral fraud committed by the government of Nicolás Maduro in the elections of July 28.

In a statement read to the media by the president of the TSJ, Carlysia Rodríguez, who is one of those sanctioned, the institution controlled by Chavismo He described the sanctions imposed by the United States on Thursday as an affront to international law. his person, as well as the judge Inocencio Figueroa; Malaquías Gil, president of the Political Administrative Chamber of the TSJ; Fanny Márquez, vice president of the TSJ and member of the Electoral Chamber, and Edward Briceño, special judge of the Terrorism Court and who issued an arrest warrant against Edmundo González.

“This practice is in conflict with the accepted principles of international law, such as self-determination and democracy, which in the system is exercised by the people,” Rodriguez said in the statement.

TSJ condemns US sanctions

The TSJ repudiated “the Interventionist actions of the United States of America in the internal affairs of the Republic by imposing unilateral, illegitimate and illegal coercive measures on 16 Venezuelan officials.”

“Venezuela faces systematic external threats that seek to weaken its institutions and democracy, which is considered a new form of colonialism in current global schemes,” he added.

Rodríguez said that the Supreme Court has always been a promoter of peace in Venezuela and that the decisions they have made are based on the country’s legal system.

CNE also rejects sanctions against 16 Venezuelan officials

Before Rodriguez’s statement, The National Electoral Council (CNE) issued a statement in which it also condemned the sanctionswhich in the case of the electoral body affected the principal rector Rosalba Gil and the secretary of the institution, Antonio José Meneses Rodríguez.

The Treasury Department sanctioned 16 people close to Nicolás Maduro, including the vice president of Parliament, the Chavista Pedro Infante, the strategic operational commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez, and the commander of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Elio Estrada, whom it accuses of repressing the population.

Under these sanctions, all personal property and assets that they may have in the United States are blocked and they are prohibited from carrying out financial transactions, without any impact on citizenship or state assets.