This measure comes in response to the contested elections in the Bolivarian country; members of the CNE, Supreme Court and Intelligence should be targeted
According to the , the United States has conducted sanctions against 60 Venezuelan officials Reuters.This measure comes in response to the elections held in the Bolivarian country on July 28.
According to the British agency, the targets of the sanctions, who were not named, are members of the CNE (Venezuela’s National Electoral Council), the country’s Supreme Court and the country’s Bolivarian Intelligence Service.
Penalties against the officials would include banning those individuals and their family members from traveling to the United States and barring US companies from doing business with the targets.
However, the process of preparing the sanctions is not yet ready to be published. The United States Treasury Department and Itamaraty’s counterpart, the US State Department, work on this matter.
elections in venezuela
Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28. The Chavista government-controlled CNE declared the re-election of Nicolás Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, left), but the opposition alleged fraud and said Edmundo González (Democratic Unitary Platform, center-right), its candidate, was the winner.
Several countries and international organizations also contest the result released by the electoral body, including the OAS (Organization of American States), which has approved a United States draft resolution requiring the disclosure of the electoral record of the election.
However, the decision’s effect has so far been small or null, with Venezuela withdrawing from the OAS in 2019. The country left the organization after the international body’s Permanent Council failed to recognize the legitimacy of Nicolás Maduro’s government.
