[Peace-discuss] G77 and China Slam US Sanctions Against Venezuela

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

G77 and China Slam US Sanctions Against Venezuela

Description: Evo Morales closing the 13th ALBA summit on Sunday. 

Evo Morales closing the 13th ALBA summit on Sunday. | Photo: Cubadebate

Published 22 December 2014 

Morales and the G77 Group referred to the last package of sanctions – which
include visa travel bans – recently signed into law by President Barack
Obama on December 18.

The President of Bolivia and current chairman of the G77 + China, Evo
Morales, condemned Monday, in behalf of the bloc, the diplomatic sanctions
that the U.S. government has imposed against Venezuela.

“The Group of 77 and China expresses its strong opposition to the unilateral
sanctions imposed by the US government against Venezuela,” read Morales
during the opening ceremony of an arts institute in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Morales also reminded that last month during the bloc’s summit in Bolivia,
the group signed an agreement condemning the imposition of legal sanctions
with extra-territorial effects by some nations to others, as well as the
“rest of the economic coercive measures being implemented against developing
countries.”

The U.S. government says that Venezuelan government officials committed
human rights violations during the protests that erupted last February in
Venezuela.

Despite U.S. claims, the Venezuelan government has consistently denied that
excessive force was used against protestors.

The United States has long maintained a hostile stance towards Venezuela,
including the coup against ex-President Hugo Chávez in 2002.

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