The United States Department of the Treasury issued a new license in which it maintains recognition of the opposition National Assembly for the control of assets abroad.
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The new license states that U.S. citizens are allowed to have transactions, prohibited by sanctions against Venezuela, with the National Assembly (under opposition control) or any entity designated by that body to exercise its mandate.
This authorization extends to persons elected by the Venezuelan National Assembly, including its members and staff.
In the 2021 license, the US contemplated exceptions in transactions with “the current interim president of Venezuela, Juan Gerardo Guaidó Marquez, and any official, designee or representative appointed or designated by Guaidó to act on behalf of the Government of Venezuela,” as well as with ambassadors and representatives of the opposition in US territory and in third countries.
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The White House has assured that it will continue to coordinate with Guaidó and “other democratic leaders who think similarly” from Venezuela, although it has avoided clarifying whether it continues to recognize him as interim president of the South American country.
The spokesman for the US Government’s National Security Council, John Kirby, recently reiterated in a telephone press conference that The United States continues to recognize the authority of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) of 2015, whose term expired in January 2021 and does not recognize the 2021 Legislative, controlled by the ruling party.
Most of these former parliamentarians from 2015 withdrew Guaidó from the presidency of the parallel Legislature at the end of the year, which will now be held by Dinorah Figuera, an exile in Spain.
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