The Usurper Is Surrounded

Published in Analítica
(Venezuela) on 25 May 2019
by Adriana Díaz (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Patricia Simoni. Edited by Eric Stimson.
Whatever the usurper says, the reality is that he is economically surrounded.

On one side, White House National Security Advisor John Bolton asserts that the U.S. Coast Guard watches over Venezuelan ships throughout the Western Hemisphere.

On the other side, the Americans are suspending the flights of planes carrying Venezuelan flags bound for the United States and the Trump administration is known to be maneuvering to suspend the sale of aircraft fuel in Venezuela. To that end, talks have been initiated with some large aeronautical fuel brokerages.

In addition, due to default in payment, the shipping company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement took action to legally stop three tankers of PDVSA* because of the outstanding debt of the state holding company.

And while all of this is happening, a commission of the United States Senate with Republican and Democratic participation, led by Bob Menéndez, a New Jersey Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, is the force behind the Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance and Development Act of 2019, or VERDAD (truth).

And what would approval of VERDAD imply? Well, among the measures to be applied would be: $400 million in humanitarian aid for Venezuela; visa revocation for family members of sanctioned Venezuelan regime officials; sanctioning long-overdue indebtedness by Nicolás Maduro and the gold trade; and the coordination of sanctions by international organizations, especially government in Latin America and Europe.

In addition, the project proposes the expansion of current means to address kleptocracy, formal recognition and support of interim president Juan Guaidó’s efforts to restore democracy and accelerated planning with international financial institutions to advance the reconstruction of post-Maduro Venezuela.

If this is not encirclement of the usurper on all sides, then I do not know what to call it.

*Translator’s note: PDVSA is the acronym for Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (Petroleum of Venezuela), the state-owned petroleum company.




Diga lo que diga el usurpador, la realidad es que está rodeado económicamente. Por un lado el Asesor de Seguridad de la Casa Blanca, John Bolton, asegura que la Guardia Costera de los EEUU  “vigila a Venezuela” a lo largo del hemisferio occidental a los buques venezolanos.

Por el otro, los norteamericanos suspenden los vuelos de aeronaves con bandera venezolana para los EEUU, y ya se conoció que la administración de Trump está gestionando la suspensión de venta de combustible para aviones en el territorio venezolano, y para ello inició conversaciones con algunas grandes corredurías del comercio de combustible aeronáutico.

Aparte, por morosos, la empresa naviera Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) emprendió acciones para detener legalmente tres tanqueros de PDVSA, debido a que la deuda del holding estatal es tremenda.

Y mientras todo esto avanza, una comisión del senado de EEUU, con participación de republicanos y demócratas, siendo los cabecillas Bob Menéndez (Demócrata) y Marco Rubio (Republicano), están impulsando el proyecto Ley de Ayuda de Emergencia, Asistencia para la Democracia y Desarrollo de Venezuela (VERDAD).

Y, ¿Qué implicaría la aprobación de VERDAD? Bueno, entre las medidas que se aplicarían estarían: $400 millones en ayuda humanitaria para Venezuela, la revocación de las visas de los familiares de funcionarios sancionados del régimen venezolano, sancionar el endeudamiento indebido por parte de Nicolás Maduro y el comercio del oro y coordinar sanciones internacionales, en especial con gobiernos de países latinoamericanos y europeos.

Además, el proyecto plantea ampliar las herramientas actuales para abordar la cleptocracia, reconoce y apoya formalmente los esfuerzos del presidente interino Juan Guaidó para restaurar la democracia y acelera la planificación con instituciones financieras internacionales para avanzar en la reconstrucción de Venezuela posterior a Maduro.

Si esto no es cercar por los cuatro costados al usurpador, entonces no sé cómo se llama.
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