“The policy of imperialist sanctions is as genocidal as to bomb a country, it is a silent bombing against an innocent, humble, hard-working and noble population such as the people of Venezuela.”
This was denounced by the Venezuelan Head of State, Nicolás Maduro, when referring to the coercive measures deployed from Washington, which since 2015 have prevented Venezuela from having free access to the commercialization of goods and services to satisfy the demands of the people and fully honor its Fundamental rights:
“This silent bombing has created serious wounds in the economic and social body of the country, but we are going to come forward, we have a people that goes out to work, to create, and we are going to achieve the wonderful economic recovery of Venezuela, with or without sanctions, with Venezuelan pride and patriotism, we will never kneel to anyone!”, he emphasized.
He noted that the method of illegal sanctions applied by the United States “aims at a policy of regime change in order to overthrow a legitimate government and then impose a puppet government; that we have defeated, we taught it a lesson, we crushed it with the force of the Constitution, of democracy and the Venezuelan people. We crushed this Juan Guaidó”.
In a press conference with national and international media, held from Miraflores Palace, when asked by journalist Ayman Mohyeldine from the United States MSNBC television station about the negative effects of coercive measures, the President specified that “the sanctions have a brutal impact on the social life of the country”, and detailed that one of the most affected sectors has been that of health, especially amidst the COVID-19 pandemic:
“In order to buy vaccines, medicines and everything that is needed for the free treatments that the population receives against COVID-19, we have to juggle and move around the world in order to (be able to) make payments. Venezuela does not have the right to any bank account in the entire world banking system, it is the only country in the world that does not has bank accounts, all bank accounts are seized by the United States government”, condemned President Maduro.
However, he stressed that to face these aggressions the route has been to work more and more for the development of the country:
“What are we doing against the sanctions? To work more, produce more, deepening strategic alliances with countries that are new powers in the world (…) no one is going to tie our hands. (May you) from the North American empire take any sanctions that you want to take: illegal, criminal and immoral sanctions, cruel sanctions, very cruel against the people of Venezuela”, he pointed out.
In this sense, he predicted that Venezuela has the capabilities to overcome the blockade: “The United States of North America will have to lift the sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, but while we achieve this, we must activate all the productive economic engines, and let no one enter the whining phase”.
