Juan Guaidó urged Uruguay to block an illegal transfer of funds allocated to the Chavez government – 04/02/2019

Venezuela's interim president, opposition Juan Guaidó, on Monday urged Uruguay not to authorize the transfer of $ 1,000 to $ 1,200 million, as the government of Nicolás Maduro has ordered the transfer of $ 1,000 to $ 1,200 million. intend to pay to this country.

"They are trying to transfer money from one of the Uruguay accounts to Bandes The call is to Uruguay so that it does not lend itself to stealing some of the money. We can talk about $ 1,000 to $ 1,200 million, "Guaidó told reporters in the majority parliament.

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According to the head of the National Assembly, the Maduro government is trying to transfer resources from one account of another country, which he did not specify, to Bands him -and He said he was informed by members of "upper echelons" of the financial institution.

"Because they (they) know what protects it is the rule of law, the Constitution," he added. In this sense, he badured that he will be "very vigilant" and will take the "relevant actions" in the coming hours.

Guaidó led the Parliament on January 15, an opposition initiative aimed at demanding 46 countries that do not allow the Maduro government to have Venezuela's resources in these territories.

By an agreement voted by a majority of the opposition, the Chamber urged the 46 countries to "instruct the regulators of financial institutions to expressly prohibit any management of the liquid badets of the Venezuelan State" .

This, in order to "guarantee the protection" of the funds in order to "not count the" Venezuela "with the legal representation before the regulating entities".

The same request was made to the private banks of these countries, a list in which, besides the 28 Member States of the European Union, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Bulgaria, Russia , China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

This decision, which the Maduro government rejected and which the Supreme Court annulled by reiterating the "contempt" in which he declared the Parliament almost three years ago, is part of the battery of legal acts including anti-Uprising aims to surround Maduro.

Guaidó has raised political tension in Venezuela by obtaining executive powers as acting president almost two weeks ago, an act that President Nicolás Maduro, who has been running since 2013, qualifies as the "president". "proclaimed."

The leader of Chavez won a comfortable vote in the elections last May, to which most of the opposition did not appear. consider them fraudulent and be disabled or persecuted by their main parties and leaders.

For this reason, Anti-Fight believes that Maduro "usurps" the presidency and that the powers of the executive are the responsibility of the head of Parliament until the convening of new elections, on the basis of the law. interpretation that they give of several articles of the Constitution.

Source: EFE, AFP and Clarín