The economic blockade imposed by the United States Government on Venezuela today, seeks to generate a social explosion that justifies a foreign intervention in the South American country, said the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, according to Prensa Latina.
In a conference offered at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), the head of the Public Ministry presented the paper entitled “Blockade against Venezuela: A criminal aggression”, which outlines the damage caused to the population since 2015 by Washington.
Saab cited the report published on May 25 by the Center for Political and Economic Research, an institution seated in the northern nation, which concludes that the coercive measures applied to the nation by the team of US President Donald Trump, would have caused the death of about 40 thousand people:
“The sanctions have reduced the availability of food and medicines, in addition to increasing diseases and mortality rates. The Americans themselves say it. They project that the continuity of the blockade will generate more death”, added the highest representative of the criminal action.
In that sense, as highlighted by Prensa Latina, he added in his speech that the sanctions endanger the lives of at least 300,000 other Venezuelans, by considerably limiting the availability of resources necessary for subsistence.
Saab considered that “the blockade has alienated investors and powerful corporations willing to make transactions with our country. We had to invent and cope with this tremendous situation”.
The attorney general stressed that the attacks against the finances have generated losses valued at 116,376 million euros, according to estimates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In turn, he recalled that Venezuela has retained 4,883 million euros in international banks: “These funds are mainly destined to the purchase of food, medicines and raw materials for the operation of the national industry”, said Saab.
On the other hand, he recalled that the actions of economic suffocation against the Bolivarian territory began on December 18, 2014, when the US Congress passed Law 113-278, which prohibits any person or institution from conducting business with the Venezuelan State, including institutions such as the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela or the Central Bank.
Likewise, he stressed that the persecution intensified as of March 8, 2015, when the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, issued the executive order declaring Venezuela an unusual and extraordinary threat to the security of his nation.
In this regard, Saab ruled that as a continuation of what was set by Obama, the current administration “has applied 150 unilateral measures to overthrow the legitimately constituted government of President Nicolás Maduro”, says Prensa Latina.
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