New sanctions against the regime of Nicolás Maduro: the United States revoked the visas of members of the Constituent Assembly Chavista

The United States began to cancel the issuance of visas to members of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly (NCA), fully trained by Chavez officials, reported Thursday the US State Department.

"The United States is revoking the visas of members of the illegitimate Constituent Assembly," he told reporters. Elliot Abrams, sent to Venezuela by the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.

"The body has usurped many constitutional powers of the legitimate and embodies the destruction of democratic institutions by Maduro ", he added.

Abrams, however, declined to say how many people are affected by this measure.

The Constituent Assembly, elected at the end of July 2017 at the end of a vote boycotted by the opposition, has 545 members. He is presided by the number two of Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, and integrated, among others, by the son of Maduro, also called Nicolás.

The United States has applied dozens of sanctions to Chavez officials and former officials against corruption, drug trafficking and human rights violations since 2015, when he said that Venezuela "posed a threat to national security".

But since August 2017, economic and diplomatic measures have intensified against the Venezuelan authorities, among them Maduro and other senior officials.