John Bolton: It's like when Darth Vader suspends someone, that's what we do with Maduro

In an interview with the Univision network, Bolton badured that the arrest of Acting President Juan Guaidó's chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, was "a big mistake of the scheme"of the President of Venezuela and warns him: "We do not play."

"This act of repression (Marrero's arrest) by the Maduro regime is a grave mistake, we warned them as clearly as possible that they should not do anything that interferes with the operations of the interim government (…) ", did he declare. .

Bolton participated Friday in a meeting that President Donald Trump held with the governors of The Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic in Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Palm Beach, in southeastern Florida.

Coincidence with this meeting, the US government announced sanctions against the National Development Bank of Venezuela (Bands) and its subsidiaries in Uruguay and Bolivia, as well as Bank of Venezuela and the Bicentennial Bank.

The decision, according to an official statement, was adopted "in response to the illegal arrestfrom the chief of staff of the Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó, who is supported by the United States and fifty countries as president in charge of Venezuela.

In his statements to Univision, Bolton said that "the goal is to quickly resolve this crisis for the benefit of the Venezuelan people and to ensure that the Maduro regime transfers power peacefully to the government of Guaidó, so that we can have free and fair elections. "

On the new sanctions says that its effect is "continuous and cumulative".

"It's like" Star Wars "when Darth Vader suspends someone, that's what we do economically with the scheme," he says. Bolton said.

"We did not boast," said Bolton in an interview during which he hinted that there could be more sanctions against the banking sector.

The tension in Venezuela has increased since last January 23, Juan Guaidó, president of the Venezuelan Parliament, has been entrusted with the powers of the executive as president in charge of the country because he considered Nicolás Maduro as illegitimate after being reelected in the elections criticized by the opposition. "fraudulent".

This action accelerated the political crisis in Venezuela because, moreover, a large part of the international community, like the United States and several countries of Europe and Latin America, supported Guaidó and lobbied for elections to be called.