The United States has designated an ex-former Venezuelan judge and a governor and two other individuals in its latest round of sanctions against the Latin American nation, the Treasury Department said in a press release on Friday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th September, 2020) The United States has designated an ex-former Venezuelan judge and a governor and two other individuals in its latest round of sanctions against the Latin American nation, the Treasury Department said in a press release on Friday.
"Today, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four key figures that have facilitated the illegitimate Maduro regime's efforts to undermine the independence and democratic order of Venezuela," the release said. "Their actions are part of a broader election interference scheme to prevent free and fair parliamentary elections from taking place in December 2020 by restructuring the National Electoral Council and controlling the state's wealth and assets for regime purposes through the Solicitor General."
The sanctions target former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice and now the Principal Rector and President of the National Electoral Council Indira Maira Alfonzo Izaguirre, former Venezuelan governor David Eugenio De Lima Salas, Solicitor General Reinaldo Enrique Munoz Pedroza, and National Electoral Council officials Jose Luis Gutierrez Parra.
