The Latin American and Caribbean integration bloc said in a statement that the punitive decisions were announced on Friday, during President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration in the National Assembly for the 2025-2031 constitutional period.

The bloc stated that the unscrupulous extortionate and criminal measures imposed in unison by the executives of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union, show “the cruelty, complicity and obvious premeditation of governments of the corporate West.”

All of them are intended to harm the peace and stability of a free, sovereign and independent nation such as Venezuela, the statement emphasized.

“As a perverse complement to the plan of aggression in this new phase, the US State Department, without the slightest legal basis, publishes announcements with rewards against the president of Venezuela and several of his collaborators,” the text added.

The press release indicated that it is intended to try to harm Venezuelan institutions and put the security and integrity of those affected at risk and, consequently, threaten the country’s peace.

The ALBA-TCP pointed out that they announced visa restrictions for Venezuelan citizens, thereby showing “actions alien to international law and the most basic standards of civility.”

The peoples and governments of the ALBA-TCP expressed their total repudiation of these maliciously orchestrated measures of aggression against Venezuela.

They noted that President Nicolás Maduro, with his experience and wisdom, will know how to lead the Venezuelan nation along “the path of prosperity and peace, despite the imperial pretensions that are placed on Latin America and the Caribbean.”

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